†Cyclotosaurus posthumus Fraas 1913 (tetrapod)

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Cyclotosauridae

Synonym: Cyclotosaurus mordax Fraas 1913

Belongs to Cyclotosaurus according to R. J. Damiani 2001

See also Ingavat and Janvier 1981, Kuhn 1971, Schoch and Milner 2000, Watson 1958 and Welles and Cosgriff 1965

Sister taxa: Capitosaurus, Cyclotosaurus buechneri, Cyclotosaurus ebrachensis, Cyclotosaurus hemprichi, Cyclotosaurus intermedius, Cyclotosaurus leptognathus, Cyclotosaurus naraserluki, Cyclotosaurus papilio, Cyclotosaurus robustus, Hercynosaurus, Hercynosaurus carinidens

Type specimens:

  • Cyclotosaurus posthumus: SMNS 12988, a partial skull. Its type locality is Burrer Quarry, Pfaffenhofen, which is in an Alaunian terrestrial sandstone/marl in the Löwenstein Formation of Germany.
  • Cyclotosaurus mordax:

Ecology: amphibious piscivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of Germany (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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