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Extinct genus of temnospondyls

Heptasaurus
Temporal range: Triassic PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Underside of the skull of Heptasaurus cappelensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Stereospondyli
Clade: Capitosauria
Family: Mastodonsauridae
Genus: Heptasaurus
Säve-Söderbergh, 1935
Type species
Heptasaurus cappelensis
(Wepfer [de], 1923 )
Fossil

Heptasaurus is an extinct genus of Triassic capitosaurian temnospondyl within the family Mastodonsauridae.

References

  1. Schoch, Rainer R. (1999). Comparative osteology of Mastodonsaurus giantess (Jaeger, 1828) from the Middle Triassic (Lettenkeuper: Longobardian) of Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Thüringen) (PDF). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B. Vol. 278. Stuttgart: Staatl. Museum für Naturkunde. OCLC 247114091. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-04-28. Retrieved 2012-08-03.
  2. Heptasaurus in the Paleobiology Database
Stereospondyli
Tetrapodomorpha
Temnospondyli
Stereospondyli
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Stereospondyli
Stereospondyli
Lapillopsidae
Rhinesuchidae
Lydekkerinidae
Capitosauria
Trematosauria
    • see below↓
Uranocentrodon senekalensis

Lydekkerina huxleyi

Paracyclotosaurus davidi
Trematosauria
Trematosauria
Benthosuchidae
Trematosauridae
Metoposauridae
Rhytidosteidae
Derwentiinae
Chigutisauridae
Brachyopidae
Plagiosauridae
Trematolestes hagdorni

Metoposaurus diagnosticus

Gerrothorax pulcherrimus
Taxon identifiers
Heptasaurus


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