Mesosuchus

Mesosuchus; Temporal range: Middle Triassic, 246 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Life restoration of Mesosuchus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauromorpha
Order:	†Rhynchosauria
Genus:	†Mesosuchus; Watson, 1912
Species
	†M. browni Watson, 1912 (type);

Mesosuchus is an extinct genus of basal rhynchosaur from early Middle Triassic (early Anisian stage) deposits of Eastern Cape, South Africa. It is known from the holotype SAM 5882, a partial skeleton, and from the paratypes SAM 6046, SAM 6536, SAM 7416 and SAM 7701 from the Aliwal North Euparkeria site. It was found in the middle deposits of the Burgersdorp Formation of the Beaufort Group (Karoo Basin) and referred to Subzone B of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone. It was first named by David Meredith Seares Watson in 1912 and the type species is Mesosuchus browni.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

^ "Mesosuchus browni, gen. et spe. Nov". Records of the Albany Museum. 2: 298–299. 1912. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
^ "The Early Triassic rhynchosaur Mesosuchus browni and the interrelationships of basal archosauromorph reptiles". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B. 353: 501–541. 1998. doi:10.1098/rstb.1998.0225. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
^ Richard J. Butler, Martín D. Ezcurra, Felipe C. Montefeltro, Adun Samathi and Gabriela Sobral (2015). "A new species of basal rhynchosaur (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the early Middle Triassic of South Africa, and the early evolution of Rhynchosauria". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 174 (3): 571–588. doi:10.1111/zoj.12246.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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