Fraserosphenodon
| Fraserosphenodon Temporal range: Late Triassic | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Rhynchocephalia |
| Clade: | †Opisthodontia |
| Genus: | †Fraserosphenodon Herrera-Flores et al., 2018 |
| Type species | |
| †Fraserosphenodon latidens Herrera-Flores et al., 2018 (Fraser 1993) | |
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Fraserosphenodon is an extinct genus of sphenodontian - the same group to which the tuatara belongs - found in the Late Triassic of the United Kingdom.
This genus contains a single species, Fraserosphenodon latidens.[1]. It was found by Nicholas C. Fraser, the Scottish palaeontologist and current Keeper of Natural Sciences at National Museums Scotland, and named in his honour. Originally, this taxon was assigned to Clevosaurus latidens [2], but it was later re-assessed and found to sit outside of this genus, and so was renamed.
References
- ↑ Herrera-Flores, Jorge A.; Stubbs, Thomas L.; Elsler, Armin; Benton, Michael J. (July 2018). "Taxonomic reassessment of Clevosaurus latidens Fraser, 1993 (Lepidosauria, Rhynchocephalia) and rhynchocephalian phylogeny based on parsimony and Bayesian inference". Journal of Paleontology. 92 (4): 734–742. doi:10.1017/jpa.2017.136. hdl:1983/59126b60-16d8-46d2-b657-954693a39d4e. ISSN 0022-3360. S2CID 90323832.
- ↑ Fraser, N.C., 1993, A new sphenodontian from the early Mesozoic of England and North America: Implications for correlating early Mesozoic continental deposits, in Lucas, S.G., and Morales, M., eds., The Nonmarine Triassic: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, v. 3, p. 135–139
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