Parotosuchus

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Parotosuchus
Temporal range: Early Triassic
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Skull impression of P. nasutus in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Temnospondyli
Suborder: †Stereospondyli
Clade: †Capitosauria
Family: †Mastodonsauridae
Genus: †Parotosuchus
Otschev and Shishkin, 1968
Species
  • <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†P. nasutus (Meyer, 1858)
  • <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†P. helgolandicus (Schröder, 1913)
  • <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†P. haughtoni (Broili & Schröder, 1937)
  • <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†P. oremburgensis (Konzhukova, 1965)
  • <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†P. orientalis (Otschev, 1966)
  • <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†P. panteleevi (Otschev, 1966)
  • <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†P. ptaszynskii Sulej and Niedźwiedzki, 2013
  • <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†P. sequester Lozovsky & Shishkin, 1974
  • <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†P. speleus Mikhail A. Shishkin and Tomasz Sulej, 2009[1]
  • P. komiensis Novikov, 1986
Synonyms
  • Archotosaurus Patton, 1976

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Parotosuchus is an extinct genus of capitosaurian temnospondyl within the family Mastodonsauridae. Fossils are known from the Early Triassic of Europe, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica. It was about 2 metres (6.6 ft) long and likely lived in aquatic environments such as lakes and rivers. Parotosuchus was covered in a scaly skin, unlike the smooth skin of modern-day amphibians, and probably moved with an eel-like motion in the water.[2]

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Life restoration of P. orenburgensis
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Life restoration of P. nasutus

Parotosuchus was originally named Parotosaurus. However, the name Parotosaurus was preoccupied by a genus of skinks,[3] and in 1968 the name Parotosuchus was proposed as a replacement.[4] The name Archotosaurus was also proposed as a replacement name in 1976,[5] although the author who proposed this was unaware that Parotosuchus was already in use. Because the name Parotosuchus was erected earlier than Archotosaurus, it has priority.[6]

References

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  2. ↑ Yahoo News: Antarctic fossil prompts rethink about amphibian history
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Further reading

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