Promastodonsaurus ("before Mastodonsaurus") is an extinct genus of capitosauroid temnospondyls within the family Mastodonsauridae.[1] Fossils of the genus were found in the Ischigualasto Formation of the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin in northwestern Argentina.[2]
Promastodonsaurus Temporal range: Carnian
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Temnospondyli |
Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
Clade: | †Capitosauria |
Family: | †Mastodonsauridae |
Genus: | †Promastodonsaurus Bonaparte 1963 |
Type species | |
†Promastodonsaurus bellmani Bonaparte 1963
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edit- Martínez, Ricardo N.; Apaldetti, Cecilia; Alcober, Oscar A.; Colombi, Carina E.; Sereno, Paul C.; Fernández, Eliana; Santi Malnis, Paula; Correa, Gustavo A.; Abelin, Diego (2013), "Vertebrate succession in the Ischigualasto Formation", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Memoir 12: Basal sauropodomorphs and the vertebrate fossil record of the Ischigualasto Formation (Late Triassic: Carnian-Norian) of Argentina: 10–30, retrieved 2019-03-29