Ebrachosuchus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = [[Late Triassic]], {{Fossil range|231|228}} | image = Ebrachosuchus neukami.JPG | image_upright = 1.15 | image_caption = ''Ebrachosuchus neukami'' | taxon = Ebrachosuchus | authority = [[Oskar Kuhn|Kuhn]], [[1936 in paleontology|1936]] | type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Ebrachosuchus neukami''''' | type_species_authority = Kuhn, 1936 | synonyms = *''[[Paleorhinus]] neukami'' <small>(Kuhn, 1936)</small> }}

'''''Ebrachosuchus''''' is an [[extinct]] [[genus]] of [[basal (phylogenetics)|basal]] [[phytosaur]] known from the [[Late Triassic]] (late [[Carnian]] stage) of [[Bavaria]], southern [[Germany]]. It is known only from the [[holotype]] BSPG 1931 X 501, a complete [[skull]] missing both [[mandible]]s. It was collected at Ebrach Quarry, bed number 9 from the late Carnian-aged [[Blasensandstein Member]] of the [[Hassberge Formation]]. It was first named by [[Oskar Kuhn]] in [[1936 in paleontology|1936]] and the [[type species]] is '''''Ebrachosuchus neukami'''''.<ref name=Ebrachosuchus>Kuhn, O. (1936). Weitere Parasuchier und Labyrinthodonten aus dem Blasensandstein des mittleren Keuper von Ebrach. ''Palaeontographica, Abteilung A'', '''83''':61-98.</ref> [[File:Ebrachosuchus (left).jpg|left|thumb|Reconstruction of ''Ebrachosuchus'' (left)]] Hunt and Lucas (1991) mistakenly referred to ''[[Francosuchus angustifrons]]'' as ''Ebrachosuchus angustifrons'', and considered it and the other two ''[[Francosuchus]]'' species, ''[[Francosuchus broilii|F. broilii]]'' and ''[[Francosuchus latus|F. latus]]'', to be [[synonym (taxonomy)|synonym]]s of ''E. neukami''. Furthermore, they reassigned the species to ''[[Paleorhinus]]'', and [[synonym (taxonomy)|synonym]]ized ''Ebrachosuchus'' with the former.<ref name=HuntLucas91>Hunt, A. P., and Lucas, S. G. (1991). [https://www.scribd.com/doc/4652272/The-Paleorhinus-biochron-and-the-correlation-of-the-nonmarine-Upper-Triassic-of-Pangaea The ''Paleorhinus'' biochron and the correlation of the non-marine Upper Triassic of Pangaea]. ''Palaeontology'' '''34'''(2):487-501.</ref> Subsequent researches accepted this referral. More recently, a phylogenetic analysis found ''E. neukami'' to be more closely related to [[Mystriosuchinae]] than to ''Paleorhinus'' and thus the genus ''Ebrachosuchus'' was re-validated, while ''F. angustifrons'' was reassigned as ''P. angustifrons'' as it shares unique synapomorphies with the type species of ''Paleorhinus'' (''P. bransoni'') and was found to be its [[sister taxon]]. ''F. broilii'' and ''F. latus'' were also removed from ''E. neukami'', as they were found to be [[nomen dubium|nomina dubia]].<ref name=StockerButler13>{{Cite journal | last1 = Stocker | first1 = M. R. | last2 = Butler | first2 = R. J. | title = Phytosauria | doi = 10.1144/SP379.5 | journal = Geological Society, London, Special Publications | year = 2013 | volume = 379 | issue = 1 | pages = 91–117 | bibcode = 2013GSLSP.379...91S | s2cid = 219192243 }}</ref>

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