Nukusurus sodalis Nessov 1997 (tetrapod)

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae

Full reference: L. A. Nessov. 1997. Nemorskiye Pozvonochnyye Melovogo Perioda Severnoy Yevrazii [Cretaceous Non-Marine Vertebrates of Northern Eurasia] 1-218

Belongs to Nukusurus according to M. A. Shishkin 2000

See also Gardner and Averianov 1998, Gardner and Böhme 2008 and Nessov 1997

Sister taxon: Nukusurus insuetus

Type specimen: CCMGE 111/12177 (?or 241/12177), a mandible (fragmentary dentary). Its type locality is CBI-17, Dzharakuduk II, which is in a Turonian/Turonian fluvial horizon in the Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan.

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at CBI-17, Dzharakuduk II

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