Oryctorhynchus Temporal range: Late Triassic,
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Skeletal reconstruction of O. bairdi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
Order: | †Rhynchosauria |
Family: | †Rhynchosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Hyperodapedontinae |
Genus: | †Oryctorhynchus Sues, Fitch & Whatley, 2020 |
Type species | |
†Oryctorhynchus bairdi Sues, Fitch & Whatley, 2020
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Oryctorhynchus is an extinct genus of rhynchosaur from the Late Triassic (Carnian-Norian)-aged Wolfville Formation of Nova Scotia, Canada that may have been the same animal as Beesiiwo.[1] The type species, O. bairdi, was named and described in 2020.[2] It was originally seen as a species of Hyperodapedon until 2020.
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