Mastodonsauridae
Encyclopedia
Mastodonsauridae is a family of capitosauroid temnospondyls. Fossil
s belonging to this family have been found in North America
, Greenland
, Europe
, Asia
, and Australia
. The family Capitosauridae (also known as Cyclotosauridae and Stenotosauridae) is synonymous
with Mastodonsauridae.
Fossil
Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of animals , plants, and other organisms from the remote past...
s belonging to this family have been found in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
, Greenland
Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...
, Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
, and Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. The family Capitosauridae (also known as Cyclotosauridae and Stenotosauridae) is synonymous
Synonym (taxonomy)
In scientific nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that is or was used for a taxon of organisms that also goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linnaeus was the first to give a scientific name to the Norway spruce, which he called Pinus abies...
with Mastodonsauridae.
Genera
- Archotosaurus
- BukobajaBukobajaBukobaja is an extinct genus of mastodonsauroid temnospondyl within the family Mastodonsauridae.-See also:* Prehistoric amphibian* List of prehistoric amphibians...
- CapitosaurusCapitosaurusCapitosaurus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl....
- CyclotosaurusCyclotosaurusCyclotosaurus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl within the family Mastodonsauridae....
- EryosuchusEryosuchusEryosuchus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Middle Triassic of northern Russia.-Sources:* The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia by Michael J. Benton, Mikhail A. Shishkin, David M. Unwin, and Evgenii N. Kurochkin. p. 35-59.* Dinosaur Encyclopedia by Jayne Parsons* Chinese...
- Heptasaurus
- KestrosaurusKestrosaurusKestrosaurus, occasionally misspelt as Kerstisaurus, is an extinct genus of Triassic capitosauroid temnospondyl amphibian within the family Mastodonsauridae.-See also:* Prehistoric amphibian* List of prehistoric amphibians...
- KupferzelliaKupferzelliaKupferzellia is an extinct genus of Triassic capitosauroid temnospondyl amphibian.-See also:* Prehistoric amphibian* List of prehistoric amphibians...
- MastodonsaurusMastodonsaurusMastodonsaurus was a large-headed temnospondyl that belonged to a group of advanced, mostly Triassic amphibians called capitosaurids. It was a giant among the stegocephalians and the largest animal of its time...
- ParacyclotosaurusParacyclotosaurusParacyclotosaurus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian, which would have appeared similar to today's salamander – but much larger, at up to long...
- ParotosuchusParotosuchusParotosuchus is an extinct genus of capitosauroid temnospondyl within the family Capitosauridae. It was a two-metre-long giant salamander-like predator that lived during the Early Triassic inhabiting lakes and rivers...
- PromastodonsaurusPromastodonsaurusPromastodonsaurus is an extinct genus of capitosauroid temnospondyl within the family Capitosauridae.-See also:* Prehistoric amphibian* List of prehistoric amphibians...
- Rhadalognathus
- Sassenisaurus
- Volgasaurus
- Volgasuchus
- WellesaurusWellesaurusWellesaurus is an extinct genus of mastodonsauroid temnospondyl within the family Mastodonsauridae.-See also:* Prehistoric amphibian* List of prehistoric amphibians...
- WetlugasaurusWetlugasaurusWetlugasaurus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Early Triassic of northern Russia and Greenland.-References:* The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia by Michael J. Benton, Mikhail A. Shishkin, David M. Unwin, and Evgenii N. Kurochkin. p. 35-59.* Bibliography Of Fossil...