Heptasaurus

Heptasaurus Temporal range: Triassic

Underside of the skull of Heptasaurus cappelensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Suborder:	†Stereospondyli
Clade:	†Capitosauria
Family:	†Mastodonsauridae
Genus:	†Heptasaurus Säve-Söderbergh, 1935
Type species
†Heptasaurus cappelensis (Wepfer, 1923 [originally Mastodonsaurus cappelensis])

Fossil

Heptasaurus is an extinct genus of Triassic capitosaurian temnospondyl amphibian within the family Mastodonsauridae.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ 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. 278. Stuttgart: Staatl. Museum für Naturkunde. OCLC 247114091.
↑ Heptasaurus in the Paleobiology Database

Capitosaurians

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Temnospondyli (unranked): Limnarchia (unranked): Stereospondylomorpha Suborder: Stereospondyli

Major groups	Mastodonsauroidea Mastodonsauridae Heylerosauridae Stenotosauridae

Genera	Antarctosuchus Calmasuchus Cherninia Cyclotosaurus Edingerella Eocyclotosaurus Eryosuchus Ferganobatrachus Heptasaurus Jammerbergia Kestrosaurus Mastodonsaurus Meyerosuchus Odenwaldia Paracyclotosaurus Parotosuchus Procyclotosaurus Promastodonsaurus Quasicyclotosaurus Sclerothorax Stanocephalosaurus Stenotosaurus Subcyclotosaurus Tatrasaurus Vladlenosaurus Warrenisuchus Watsonisuchus Wellesaurus Wetlugasaurus Xenotosuchus Yuanansuchus

Related categories	Temnospondyls Triassic amphibians

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