Antarctosuchus

Antarctosuchus
Temporal range: Middle Triassic
Holotype skull on display at the Field Museum of Natural History.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Stereospondyli
Clade: Capitosauria
Superfamily: Mastodonsauroidea
Genus: Antarctosuchus
Sidor, Steyer & Hammer, 2014
Type species
Antarctosuchus polyodon
Sidor, Steyer & Hammer, 2014

Antarctosuchus is an extinct genus of capitosauroid temnospondyl known from the Middle Triassic upper Fremouw Formation in the Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica. It contains a single species, Antarctosuchus polyodon.[1]

Model of Antarctosuchus polyodon at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago
  1. ^ Sidor, C. A.; Steyer, J. S. B.; Hammer, W. R. (2014). "A new capitosauroid temnospondyl from the Middle Triassic upper Fremouw Formation of Antarctica". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (3): 539. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.808205.