Supradapedon
| Supradapedon Temporal range: Middle - Late Triassic | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | †Rhynchosauria |
| Family: | †Rhynchosauridae |
| Clade: | †Hyperodapedontidae |
| Subfamily: | †Hyperodapedontinae |
| Genus: | †Supradapedon Chatterjee, 1980 |
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Supradapedon is an extinct genus of hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur from mid-late Triassic deposits of Tanganyika Territory, Tanzania. It is known from the holotype SAM-11704. The holotype and only specimen of Supradapedon was first assigned to a species of Scaphonyx (now considered to be a nomen dubium), Scaphonyx stockleyi.[1] This species was reassigned to its own genus by Sankar Chatterjee in 1980 and the type species is Supradapedon stockleyi.[2] One study, Langer et al. (2000), concluded that Supradapedon is a synonym of Hyperodepedon and referred it to Hyperodepedon sp.[3] However, the provisional validity of this genus has been commonly accepted since.[4][5][6]
References
- ↑ Boonstra, D.D. (1953). "A note on some rhyncosaurian remains from Tanganyika territory". Annals of South Africa Museum 42 (1): 1–4.
- ↑ Sankar Chatterjee (1980). "The evolution of Rhyncosaurs". Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France 139: 57–65.
- ↑ M. Langer, M. Boniface, G. Cuny and L. Barbieri (2000). "The phylogenetic position of Isalorhynchus genovefae, a Late Triassic rhynchosaur from Madagascar". Annales de Paléontologie 86 (2): 101–127. doi:10.1016/s0753-3969(00)80002-6.
- ↑ Langer, M. C. (1996). "Rincossauros sul-brasileiros: histórico e filogenia". Dissertação de Mestrado não publicada, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
- ↑ Felipe Chinaglia Montefeltro (2008). Inter-relações filogenéticas dos rincossauros (Diapsida, Archosauromorpha). Unpublished Thesis, Biology Department, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto. p. 203.
- ↑ David W. E. Hone and Michael J. Benton (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.
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