Rhynchosaurus
| Rhynchosaurus Temporal range: Middle Triassic, Anisian | |
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| Skull of Rhynchosaurus articeps | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | †Rhynchosauria |
| Family: | †Rhynchosauridae |
| Genus: | †Rhynchosaurus Owen, 1842 |
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Restored skull
Rhynchosaurus (beaked lizard) is a genus of rhynchosaur that lived during the Middle Triassic Period. It lived in Europe. It was related to the archosaurs, but not within that group. The type species of Rhynchosaurus is R. articeps. Michael Benton named two additional species, R. spenceri and R. brodiei, but they were subsequently renamed Fodonyx and Langeronyx respectively.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Hone, David W. E.; Benton, Michael J. (2008). "A new genus of rhynchosaur from the Middle Triassic of south-west England". Palaeontology 51 (1): 95–115. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00739.x.
- ↑ Martín D. Ezcurra, Felipe Montefeltro and Richard J. Butler (2016). "The Early Evolution of Rhynchosaurs". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 3: Article 142. doi:10.3389/fevo.2015.00142.
External links
- Rhynchosaurus in the Paleobiology Database
- Archosauromorpha at Paleofile
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