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Capitosaurus
Temporal range: Upper Triassic
Capitosaurus polaris skull
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Capitosaurus

Münster, 1836
Binomial name
Capitosaurus polaris
Wiman, 1914

Capitosaurus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibians whose remains have been found in Spitsbergen and Germany. Its skull was 30 cm long, with a total length over 122 cm.[1] Several species have been assigned to the genus over the years, but only the type species C. polaris is still valid today.[2]

Restoration of C. polaris

References

  1. ^ http://www.angellis.net/Web/PDfiles/amphs.pdf
  2. ^ Capitosaurus Münster, 1836 in GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2020-07-27.