Trucheosaurus

Trucheosaurus Temporal range: Late Permian
Restoration of Trucheosaurus major
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Suborder:	†Stereospondyli
Family:	†Rhytidosteidae
Genus:	†Trucheosaurus Watson, 1956
Type species
†Trucheosaurus major (Woodward, 1909 [originally Bothriceps major)

Trucheosaurus is an extinct genus of rhytidosteid temnospondyl from the late Permian period of Sydney Basin, New South Wales, Australia. It is known from the holotype materials MMF 12697a, a partially complete skull, AMF 50977, an articulated postcranial skeleton and BMNHR 3728, the counterpart of both skull and postcranial skeleton, recovered from the Glen Davis Formation. This genus was named by Watson in 1956, and the type species is Trucheosaurus major.^[1]

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram from Dias-da-Silva and Marsicano (2011):^[2]

Stereospondyli	Benthosuchus Watsonisuchus Uruyiella Peltobatrachus Rhineceps Australerpeton Rhytidosteus Lapillopsis Lydekkerina Trematosauria Trematosaurus Luzocephalus Chomatobatrachus Brachyopoidea Bothriceps Xenobrachyops Keratobrachyops Rhytidosteidae Nanolania Trucheosaurus Laidleria Boreopelta Peltostega Pneumatostega Sangaia Mahavisaurus Derwentiinae Deltasaurus Arcadia Rewana Derwentia Indobrachyops

References

1. Watson, D. M. S. (1956). "The brachyopid labyrinthodonts". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), (Geology Series) 2: 317–391.
2. Dias-da-Silva, S.; Marsicano, C. (2011). "Phylogenetic reappraisal of Rhytidosteidae (Stereospondyli: Trematosauria), temnospondyl amphibians from the Permian and Triassic". Journal of Systematic Paleontology 9 (2): 305–325. doi:10.1080/14772019.2010.492664.