Promastodonsaurus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of temnospondyls}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = [[Carnian]]<br />~{{fossil range|231.7|225}} | image = | taxon = Promastodonsaurus | authority = [[José Bonaparte|Bonaparte]] 1963 | type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Promastodonsaurus bellmani''''' | type_species_authority = Bonaparte 1963 }}

'''''Promastodonsaurus''''' ("before ''[[Mastodonsaurus]]''") is an extinct [[genus]] of [[Capitosauroidea|capitosauroid]] [[temnospondyl]]s within the [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] [[Mastodonsauridae]].<ref name=BJF63>{{cite journal |last=Bonaparte |first=J.F |year=1963 |title=''Promastodonsaurus bellmanni'' n. gen. et n. sp., capitosa urido del Triasico medio de Argentina (Stereospondyli, Capitosauroidea) |journal=Ameghiniana |volume=3 |pages=67–78}}</ref> Fossils of the genus were found in the [[Ischigualasto Formation]] of the [[Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin]] in northwestern Argentina.<ref name=Martinez2013>Martínez et al., 2013</ref>

== References == {{Reflist}}

=== Bibliography === * {{citation |last1=Martínez |first1=Ricardo N. |last2=Apaldetti |first2=Cecilia |last3=Alcober |first3=Oscar A. |last4=Colombi |first4=Carina E. |author5-link=Paul Sereno |last5=Sereno |first5=Paul C. |last6=Fernández |first6=Eliana |last7=Santi Malnis |first7=Paula |last8=Correa |first8=Gustavo A. |last9=Abelin |first9=Diego |year=2013 |title=Vertebrate succession in the Ischigualasto Formation |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257448913 |journal=[[Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology]] |volume=Memoir 12: Basal sauropodomorphs and the vertebrate fossil record of the Ischigualasto Formation (Late Triassic: Carnian-Norian) of Argentina |pages=10–30 |access-date=2019-03-29}}

[[Category:Capitosauria]] [[Category:Carnian genera]] [[Category:Triassic temnospondyls of South America]] [[Category:Triassic Argentina]] [[Category:Fossils of Argentina]] [[Category:Ischigualasto Formation]] [[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1963]] [[Category:Taxa named by José Bonaparte]]