Tatrasuchus Explained

Tatrasuchus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl from the Middle Triassic of Poland and Germany. It is classified as a member of the family Cyclotosauridae or Mastodonsauridae. It is closely related to the genus Cyclotosaurus. The type species, Tatrasuchus kulczyckii, was named in 1996.^[1] Damiani (2001) considered genus Kupferzellia Schoch (1997) from the Middle Triassic of Germany to be a junior synonym of Tatrasuchus, and recombined its type species, K. wildi as the second species of Tatrasuchus.^[2] This classification was followed by some authors, e.g. Fortuny et al. (2011); other authors, e.g. Schoch (2008), maintain Tatrasuchus and Kupferzellia as distinct genera.^[3] However, Schoch & Moreno (2024) synonymized the two genera, maintaining T. wildi as a distinct species from T. kulczyckii.^[4]

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram from Fortuny et al. (2011):^[5]

Notes and References

1. Teresa Maryańska and Mikhail A. Shishkin . 1996 . New cyclotosaurid (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the Middle Triassic of Poland and some problems of interrelationships of capitosauroids . Prace Muzeum Ziemi . 43 . 53–83 .
2. Ross J. Damiani . 2001 . A systematic revision and phylogenetic analysis of Triassic mastodonsauroids (Temnospondyli: Stereospondyli) . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 133 . 4 . 379–482 . 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb00635.x . free .
3. Rainer R. Schoch . 2008 . The Capitosauria (Amphibia): characters, phylogeny, and stratigraphy . Palaeodiversity . 1 . 189–226 .
4. Schoch . Rainer R. . Moreno . Raphael . 2024-05-31 . Synopsis on the temnospondyls from the German Triassic . Palaeodiversity . 17 . 1 . 10.18476/pale.v17.a2 . 1867-6294.
5. Fortuny . J. . Galobart . À. . Santisteban . C. D. . 10.4202/app.2010.0025 . A New Capitosaur from the Middle Triassic of Spain and the Relationships within the Capitosauria . Acta Palaeontologica Polonica . 56 . 3 . 553 . 2011 . free .