Meyerosuchus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of temnospondyls}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Meyerosuchus | fossil_range = [[Early Triassic]] | authority = Ochev, [[1966 in paleontology|1966]] | subdivision_ranks = [[Species]] | subdivision = * {{extinct}}'''''M. fuerstenberganus''''' <small>(Meyer, 1855) ([[Type species|type]])</small> }}

'''''Meyerosuchus''''' is an extinct [[genus]] of [[mastodonsauroidea]]n [[temnospondyl]]. Fossils have been found from the [[Early Triassic]] [[Hardegsen Formation]] in southern [[Germany]]. ''Meyerosuchus'' is present in late [[Olenekian]] deposits of the Middle [[Buntsandstein]].<ref name=SRR11>{{cite journal |last=Schoch |first=R.R. |year=2011 |title=How diverse is the temnospondyl fauna in the Lower Triassic of southern Germany? |journal= Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=261 |issue=1 |pages=49–60 |doi=10.1127/0077-7749/2011/0147}}</ref> The [[type species]] ''M. fuerstenberganus'' was named in 1966, although remains have been known since 1855.<ref name=B-Betal99>{{cite journal |last=Borsuk-Bialynicka |first=M. |author2=Cook, E. |author3=Evans, S.E. |author4= Maryańska, T. |year=1999 |title=A microvertebrate assemblage from the Early Triassic of Poland |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=44 |issue=2 |pages=167–188}}</ref> ''Meyerosuchus'' is closely related to ''[[Stenotosaurus]]''; both genera are grouped in the [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] [[Stenotosauridae]] and the two genera may even be synonymous.<ref name=LS02>{{cite journal |last=Lucas |first=S.G. |author2=Schoch, R.R. |year=2002 |title=Triassic temnospondyl biostratigraphy, biochronology and correlation of the German Buntsandstein and North American Moenkopi Formation |journal=Lethaia |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=97–106 |doi=10.1111/j.1502-3931.2002.tb00071.x}}</ref>

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