Trematosaurus
Trematosaurus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian found in Germany and Russia. It was first named by Hermann Burmeister in 1849 and the type species is Trematosaurus brauni.Classification
Below is a cladogram from Steyer showing the phylogenetic relationships of trematosaurids:Species
Valid species
- The type species, Trematosaurus brauni is known from the middle member of variegated sandstone in the vicinity of Bernburg, Germany.
- T. galae is known from fragmentary specimens found in Lower Triassic Donskaya Luka locality, Russia.
- T. fuchsi is known from the same stratigraphic level of German Basin, Thuringia. It is a junior synonym of T. brauni.
- T. thuringiensis is also known from Thuringia.
- T. madagascariensis referred by Schoch & Milner, 2000, to Tertremoides.
- South African T. kannemeyeri, described based on a skull fragment, most likely belongs to the genus Aphaneramma or a closely related lonchorhynchine.
- Another South African species, T. sobeyi, was assigned to its own genus Trematosuchus.
- East European trematosaurid remains referred to Trematosaurus in fact belong to the genus Inflectosaurus Shishkin, 1960.
