Trematosaurus

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Kingdom Animalia Class Amphibia Superfamily Trematosauroidea Rank Genus		Phylum Chordata Order Temnospondyli Family Trematosauridae

Similar Aphaneramma, Trematosauridae, Plagiosaurus, Mahavisaurus, Wantzosaurus

Trematosaurus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian found in Germany and Russia. It was first named by Hermann Burmeister in 1849 and the type species is Trematosaurus brauni.

Trematosaurus Trematosauroids those gharialsnouted marine temnospondyls

Valid species

The type species, Trematosaurus brauni (Burmeister, 1849) is known from the middle member of variegated sandstone in the vicinity of Bernburg, Germany.

T. galae (Novikov, 2010) is known from fragmentary specimens found in Lower Triassic Donskaya Luka locality (Volgograd Region), Russia.

Reclassified species

Trematosaurus Trematosaurus and Metaposaurus

T. fuchsi (Seidlitz, 1920) is known from the same stratigraphic level of German Basin, Thuringia. It is a junior synonym of T. brauni.

T. thuringiensis (Werneburg, 1993) is also known from Thuringia.

T. madagascariensis (Lehman, 1966) referred by Schoch & Milner, 2000, to Tertremoides (Lehman, 1979).

South African T. kannemeyeri (Broom, 1909), described based on a skull fragment, most likely belongs to the genus Aphaneramma or a closely related lonchorhynchine.

Another South African species, T. sobeyi (Haughton, 1915), was assigned to its own genus Trematosuchus (Watson, 1919).

East European trematosaurid remains referred to Trematosaurus in fact belong to the genus Inflectosaurus Shishkin, 1960 (Novikov, 2007).

Trematosaurus sculpture Dr Frederik Spindler

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Trematosaurus GEOL431 Vertebrate Paleobiology

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Trematosaurus Wikipedia

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