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Trematosaurus

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Trematosauridae

Taxonomy
Trematosaurus was named by Burmeister (1849). It is the type genus of Trematosauroidea, Trematosauridae.

It was reranked as Labyrinthodon (Trematosaurus) by Owen (1859); it was synonymized subjectively with Labyrinthodon by Owen (1861).

It was assigned to Labyrinthodontes by Meyer (1845); to Labyrinthodon by Owen (1859); to Trematosaurinae by Schoch and Milner (2000), Novikov (2010); and to Trematosauridae by Watson (1919), Haughton (1925), Kuhn (1971), Warren and Black (1985), Carroll (1988), Schoch (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1845Trematosaurus Meyer p. 282
1849Trematosaurus Burmeister
1859Labyrinthodon (Trematosaurus) Owen p. 138
1919Trematosaurus Watson p. 67
1925Trematosaurus Haughton p. 249
1971Trematosaurus Kuhn p. 8
1985Trematosaurus Warren and Black
1988Trematosaurus Carroll
2000Trematosaurus Schoch and Milner p. 109
2010Trematosaurus Novikov
2013Trematosaurus Schoch

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
—Eutemnospondyli
—Rhachitomi()
—Eryopiformes
—Stereospondylomorpha
—Stereospondyli()
—Superstes
—Trematosauria
superfamilyTrematosauroidea
familyTrematosauridae
genusTrematosaurusBurmeister 1849

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Trematosaurus Burmeister 1849
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†Trematosaurus brauni Burmeister 1849
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Invalid names: Labyrinthodon ocella Meyer 1855 [synonym], Trematosaurus fuchsi Seidlitz 1920 [synonym]
†Trematosaurus galae Novikov 2010
†Trematosaurus thuringiensis Werneburg 1993
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: brackish, freshwater, terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilesubo
Life habit: amphibioussubo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Dispersal: waterc
Created: 2009-07-20 21:44:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:44:54
Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Uhen 2004

Age range: base of the Buntsandstein to the top of the Rhaetian or 259.51000 to 201.40000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Buntsandstein259.51 - 251.902Germany (Bavaria) T. fuchsi (232276)
Olenekian249.9 - 246.7Germany (Thüringen) T. thuringiensis (134516)
Olenekian249.9 - 246.7Russian Federation (Volgograd) T. galae (27343)
Olenekian249.9 - 246.7Russian Federation (Komi) T. sp. (85454)
Olenekian249.9 - 246.7Russian Federation (Orenburg) T. sp. (195829 195843)
Spathian248.1 - 246.7Germany (Sachsen-Anhalt) T. brauni (196668)
Spathian248.1 - 246.7Russian Federation (Orenburg) T. sp. (196040 196059)
Rhaetian205.7 - 201.4United Kingdom (Wales) T. sp. (72293)