A new species of Cyclotosaurus (Stereospondyli, Capitosauria) from the Late Triassic of Bielefeld, NW Germany, and the intrarelationships of the genus
Author
Witzmann, Florian
Sven Sachs & Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, G-B 204, RI 02912, USA & Sven Sachs & Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung,
Author
Sachs, Sven
Christian J. Nyhuis & Naturkundemuseum Bielefeld, Abteilung Geowissenschaften, Adenauerplatz 2, 33602 Bielefeld, Germany
Author
Nyhuis, Christian J.
Galileo-Wissenswelt, Mummendorferweg 11 b, 23769 Burg auf Fehmarn, Germany
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/fr-19-83-2016
journal article
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10.5194/fr-19-83-2016
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Cyclotosaurus
Fraas, 1889
Hercynosaurus
Jaekel, 1914
Hemprichisaurus
Kuhn, 1939
Type
species:
Cyclotosaurus robustus
(
Meyer and Plieninger, 1844
)
Diagnosis (emended after
Schoch and Milner, 2000
): (1) Frontals with broad descending processes that connect with the roof of the broad sphenethmoid; (2) short choana of round to ovate outline; (3) vomerine plate short; (4) broad triangular area at the base of the cultriform process merging continuously into the cultriform crest; (5) basal plate of parasphenoid delta shaped with elongated basicranial suture (shared with
Mastodonsauridae
); (6) squamosal embayment closed to otic fenestra (shared with
Eocyclotosaurus
,
Quasicyclotosaurus
,
Kupferzellia
(
Tatrasuchus
)
, and
Procyclotosaurus
); (7) pterygoid–exoccipital contact by means of posterior process of pterygoid (shared with
Eocyclotosaurus
and
Quasicyclotosaurus
); (8) frontal contribution to orbital margin limited or obliterated (obliteration shared with
Eocyclotosaurus
and
Quasicyclotosaurus
); (9) quadrate ramus of pterygoid laterally aligned and abbreviated (
Schoch, 2008
; shared with
Mastodonsauridae
).