Tatrasuchus

Tatrasuchus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Middle Triassic of Poland. It is classified as a member of the family Cyclotosauridae[1] or Mastodonsauridae.[2] It is closely related to the genus Cyclotosaurus. The type species, Tatrasuchus kulczyckii, was named in 1996.[1] Damiani (2001) considered genus Kupferzellia Schoch (1997) from Middle Triassic of Germany to be a junior synonym of Tatrasuchus, and recombined its type species, K. wildi as the second species of Tatrasuchus.[2] This classification was followed by some authors, e.g. Fortuny et al. (2011);[3] other authors, e.g. Schoch (2008), maintain Tatrasuchus and Kupferzellia as distinct genera.[4]

Tatrasuchus Temporal range: Middle Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Suborder:	†Stereospondyli
Clade:	†Capitosauria
Family:	†Mastodonsauridae
Genus:	†Tatrasuchus Maryańska and Shishkin, 1996
Type species
†Tatrasuchus kulczyckii Maryańska and Shishkin, 1996

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram from Fortuny et al. (2011):[3]

Stereospondyli

Lydekkerina huxleyi   Rhinesuchidae   Rhineceps nyasaensis     Uranocentrodon senekalensis       Capitosauria   Wetlugasaurus angustifrons         Odenwaldia heidelbergensis     Vladlenosaurus alexeyevi             Edingerella madagascariensis     Watsonisuchus spp.         Xenotosuchus africanus       Cherninia denwai       Paracyclotosaurus crookshanki         Stanocephalosaurus pronus     Stanocephalosaurus birdi         Procyclotosaurus stantonensis       Eocyclotosaurus spp.     Quasicyclotosaurus campi                     Parotosuchus orenburgensis       Calmasuchus acri         Cyclotosaurus robustus     Tatrasuchus wildi         Eryosuchus garjainovi     Mastodonsaurus giganteus                 Trematosauria   Benthosuchus sushkini   Trematosauroidea   Thoosuchus yakovlevi       Angusaurus spp.     Trematosaurus brauni

References

1. Teresa Maryańska and Mikhail A. Shishkin (1996). "New cyclotosaurid (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the Middle Triassic of Poland and some problems of interrelationships of capitosauroids" (PDF). Prace Muzeum Ziemi. 43: 53–83.
2. Ross J. Damiani (2001). "A systematic revision and phylogenetic analysis of Triassic mastodonsauroids (Temnospondyli: Stereospondyli)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 133 (4): 379–482. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb00635.x.
3. Fortuny, J.; Galobart, À.; Santisteban, C. D. (2011). "A New Capitosaur from the Middle Triassic of Spain and the Relationships within the Capitosauria" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 56 (3): 553. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0025.
4. Rainer R. Schoch (2008). "The Capitosauria (Amphibia): characters, phylogeny, and stratigraphy" (PDF). Palaeodiversity. 1: 189–226.