Tatrasuchus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of temnospondyls}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Tatrasuchus | image = Kupferzellia wildi.JPG | fossil_range = [[Middle Triassic]],<br />~{{fossil range|246.7|237}}{{period fossil range|Triassic|246.7|237}} | authority = [[Teresa Maryańska|Maryańska]] and Shishkin, 1996 | type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Tatrasuchus kulczyckii''''' | type_species_authority = Maryańska and Shishkin, [[1996 in paleontology|1996]] }}

'''''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]]<ref name=Tatrasuchus /> or [[Mastodonsauridae]].<ref name=Damiani2001 /> It is closely related to the genus ''[[Cyclotosaurus]]''. The [[type species]], ''Tatrasuchus kulczyckii'', was named in 1996.<ref name=Tatrasuchus>{{Cite journal|author=[[Teresa Maryańska]] and Mikhail A. Shishkin |year=1996 |title=New cyclotosaurid (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the Middle Triassic of Poland and some problems of interrelationships of capitosauroids |journal=Prace Muzeum Ziemi |volume=43 |pages=53–83 |url=http://www.paleo.pan.pl/people/ikonoteka/Maryanska_Szyszkin_1996_Prace%20MZ_43_53.pdf }}</ref> 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''.<ref name=Damiani2001>{{Cite journal|author=Ross J. Damiani |year=2001 |title=A systematic revision and phylogenetic analysis of Triassic mastodonsauroids (Temnospondyli: Stereospondyli) |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=133 |issue=4 |pages=379–482 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb00635.x |doi-access=free }}</ref> This classification was followed by some authors, e.g. Fortuny ''et al.'' (2011);<ref name=FGS11 /> other authors, e.g. Schoch (2008), maintain ''Tatrasuchus'' and ''Kupferzellia'' as distinct genera.<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Rainer R. Schoch |year=2008 |title=The Capitosauria (Amphibia): characters, phylogeny, and stratigraphy |journal=Palaeodiversity |volume=1 |pages=189–226 |url=https://www.palaeodiversity.org/pdf/01/Palaeodiversity_1_13_189-226.pdf }}</ref> However, Schoch & Moreno (2024) synonymized the two genera, maintaining ''T. wildi'' as a distinct species from ''T. kulczyckii''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schoch |first=Rainer R. |last2=Moreno |first2=Raphael |date=2024-05-31 |title=Synopsis on the temnospondyls from the German Triassic |url=https://bioone.org/journals/Palaeodiversity/volume-17/issue-1/pale.v17.a2/Synopsis-on-the-temnospondyls-from-the-German-Triassic/10.18476/pale.v17.a2.full |journal=Palaeodiversity |volume=17 |issue=1 |doi=10.18476/pale.v17.a2 |issn=1867-6294|url-access=subscription |doi-access=free }}</ref>

==Phylogeny== Below is a [[cladogram]] from Fortuny ''et al.'' (2011):<ref name=FGS11>{{Cite journal | last1 = Fortuny | first1 = J. | last2 = Galobart | first2 = À. | last3 = Santisteban | first3 = C. D. | doi = 10.4202/app.2010.0025 | title = A New Capitosaur from the Middle Triassic of Spain and the Relationships within the Capitosauria | journal = Acta Palaeontologica Polonica | volume = 56 | issue = 3 | pages = 553 | year = 2011 | url = https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/artpub/2011/186923/actpalpol_a2011v56n3p553.pdf | doi-access = free }}</ref> {{clade| style=font-size:100%;line-height:85% |label1=[[Stereospondyli]] |1={{clade |1=''[[Lydekkerina huxleyi]]'' |label2=[[Rhinesuchidae]] |2={{clade |1=''[[Rhineceps nyasaensis]]'' |2=''[[Uranocentrodon senekalensis]]''}} |3={{clade |label1=[[Capitosauria]] |1={{clade |1=''[[Wetlugasaurus angustifrons]]'' |2={{clade |1={{clade |1=''[[Odenwaldia heidelbergensis]]'' |2=''[[Vladlenosaurus alexeyevi]]''}} |2={{clade |1={{clade |1={{clade |1=''[[Edingerella madagascariensis]]'' |2=''[[Watsonisuchus]] spp.''}} |2={{clade |1=''[[Xenotosuchus africanus]]'' |2={{clade |1=''[[Cherninia denwai]]'' |2={{clade |1=''[[Paracyclotosaurus crookshanki]]'' |2={{clade |1={{clade |1=''[[Stanocephalosaurus pronus]]'' |2=''[[Stanocephalosaurus birdi]]''}} |2={{clade |1=''[[Procyclotosaurus stantonensis]]'' |2={{clade |1=''[[Eocyclotosaurus]] spp.'' |2=''[[Quasicyclotosaurus campi]]''}} }} }} }} }} }} }} |2={{clade |1=''[[Parotosuchus orenburgensis]]'' |2={{clade |1=''[[Calmasuchus acri]]'' |2={{clade |1={{clade |1=''[[Cyclotosaurus robustus]]'' |2='''''[[Kupferzellia|Tatrasuchus wildi]]'''''}} |2={{clade |1=''[[Eryosuchus garjainovi]]'' |2=''[[Mastodonsaurus giganteus]]''}} }} }} }} }} }} }} |label2=[[Trematosauria]] |2={{clade |1=''[[Benthosuchus sushkini]]'' |label2=[[Trematosauroidea]] |2={{clade |1=''[[Thoosuchus yakovlevi]]'' |2={{clade |1=''[[Angusaurus]] spp.'' |2=''[[Trematosaurus brauni]]'' }} }} }} }} }} }}

==References== {{Reflist}}

[[Category:Capitosauria]] [[Category:Triassic temnospondyls of Europe]]