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Subject: phytosaurs
A quick question to try to save some time:
What are the most complete specimens of phytosaurs known? Is any complete
enough to allow estimates of both dimensions of the femur and the total length
of the skeleton?
I have my reasons for wanting to know.... :-)
Jim Farlow
Here are a few
= Mystriosuchus cfr. planirostris STEFANI, ARDUINI, GARASSINO, PINNA, TERUZZI
& TROMBETTA, 1992
MBSN 2
Locality: Cene, Endenna, near Zogno, Bergamo Prelaps, Lombardy, Northern Italy.
Horizon: Zorzino Formation, Upper Norian, Late Triassic.
Material: Skull.
Referred material:
RENESTO & LOMBARDO, 1999, RENESTO, TINTORI, LOMBARDO & MARAZII, 1999
MCSNB 10.087: A large nearly complete skeleton.
Note: Possibly a marine phytosaur.
Renesto, Silvio and Cristina Lombardo, 1999. Structure of the tail of a
phytosaur (Reptilia, Archosauria) from the Norian (Late Triassic) of Lombardy
(Northern Italy). Rivista Italiana de Paleontologia e Stratrigrafia, Volume
105, Number 1, Tavole 1: 135-144.
Renesto, Silvio and Anna Paganoni, 1998. A phytosaur skull from the Norian
(Late Triassic) of Lombardy (Northern Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, Volume 104, Number 1:
115-122.
Renesto, Silvio, Andrea Tintori, Cristina lombardo adn Barbara
Marazi, 1999. A complete Phytosaur (Reptilia, Archosauria) form the norian
(Late Triassic) of Lombardy (Northern Italy). In: Third International Symposium
on Lithographic Limestones, Bergamo, Italy-September 1-5, 1999. Edited by
Silvio Renesto. Rivista del Museo civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico
Caffi', Volume 20: 127-130.
Genus: Rutiodon EMMONS, 1856
Species: carolinense EMMONS, 1856
COLBERT, 1947
AMNH No. 1
Locality: Egypt, Chatham County, North Carolina.
Horizon: Late Triassic.
Material: Skull missing tip of snout, some of the nasal and squmosal, dentary
missing mid-section of mandible and saurangualar and some of the angular, and
most of skeleton.
Colbert, E. H. 1947. Studies of the phytosaurs Machaeroprosopus and Rutiodon.
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. Volume. 88, Article 2:
57-96.
Colbert, E. H., and Chaffee, R. G. 1941. The type of Clepsysaurus
pennsylvanicus and its bearing upon the genus Rutiodon. Notulae Naturae. Number
90: 1-19.
Genus: Palaeorhinus WILLISTON, 1904
hislopi CHATTERJEE 1978 (Referred material)
Holotype: ISI R 42
Locality: Pranhita-Godavari Valley, India.
Horizon: Maleri Formation, Carnian-Middle Norian, Late Triassic.
Material: Skull and dentary, skeleton missing right manus and ulna, left
metatarsals and some phalanges.
Referred specimens:
ISI R 43: Posterior portion of skull, cervical, dorsal sacral and caudal
vertebrae, right scapula, humerus, anterior ulna and radius, pelvis and hind
legs.
Chatterjee, S. 1978. A primitive parasuchid (Phytosaur) reptile from the Upper
Triassic Maleri Formation of India. Paleontology, Vol. 21, Part I: 83-127.
This last one is probably the best.
Tracy L. Ford
P. O. Box 1171
Poway Ca 92074