Calmasuchus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of temnospondyls}} {{distinguish|Calamosuchus}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = [[Middle Triassic]], {{fossil_range|Anisian}} | image = Calmasuchus.jpg | image_caption = Computed tomographic reconstruction | taxon = Calmasuchus | authority = Fortuny ''et al.'', [[2011 in paleontology|2011]] | type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Calmasuchus acri''''' | type_species_authority = Fortuny ''et al.'', 2011 }}

'''''Calmasuchus''''' is a [[genus]] of [[capitosauria]]n [[temnospondyl]] which lived during the middle [[Triassic]] (lower-middle [[Anisian]] age). Fossils of ''Calmasuchus'' have been recovered from the [[La Mora]] site of the [[Catalonia|Catalan]] basin in [[Barcelona]] of [[Spain]].<ref name="Fortuny11">{{Cite journal|author=Josep Fortuny, Àngel Galobart and Carles De Santisteban |year=2011 |title=A new capitosaur from the Middle Triassic of Spain and the relationships within the Capitosauria |url=http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app56/app20100025.pdf |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=56 |issue=3 |pages=553–566 |doi=10.4202/app.2010.0025|s2cid=55068128 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Identified from a partial [[skull]] roof and palate ([[holotype]] IPS-37401 (LM-83)), skull fragments (IPS-37401 (LM-63, LM-101, L and M1)) and complete hemi-[[mandible]] (IPS-12 42407 (LM-4)), it was named by Josep Fortuny, Àngel Galobart and Carles De Santisteban in [[2011 in paleontology|2011]]. The type species is ''Calmasuchus acri''.<ref name="Fortuny11"/>

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[[Category:Capitosauria]] [[Category:Anisian genera]] [[Category:Triassic temnospondyls of Europe]] [[Category:Fossil taxa described in 2011]]