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Stenotosaurus

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Stenotosaurus
Temporal range: Middle Triassic, Anisian
Restoration of Stenotosaurus stantonensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Temnospondyli
Suborder: †Stereospondyli
Clade: †Capitosauria
Family: †Stenotosauridae
Genus: †Stenotosaurus
Romer, 1947
Species
  • †S. semiclausus Romer, 1947 (type)
  • †S. gracilis Kamphausen, 1983
  • †S. stantonensis Kamphausen, 1983

Stenotosaurus is an extinct genus of capitosaurian temnospondyl within the family Mastodonsauridae. It is known from three species, all of which lived during the Anisian stage of the Middle Triassic. Fossils have been found in England and Germany.[1]

References

  1. ^ Damiani, R. J. (2001). "A systematic revision and phylogenetic analysis of Triassic mastodonsauroids (Temnospondyli: Stereospondyli)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 133 (4): 379–482. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb00635.x.
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