Cyamodus kuhnschnyderi Nosotti & Pinna, 1993

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Cyamodus kuhnschnyderi Nosotti & Pinna, 1993

Holotype.

SMNS 15855 , incomplete cranium (Fig. 6 C ).

Type locality.

Tiefenbach near Crailsheim, Baden-Württemberg.

Type horizon.

Discoceratitenschichten, Hohenlohe Subformation, Meissner Formation, Upper Muschelkalk Subgroup. Age: Middle Triassic (Ladinian: Fassanian).

Referred material.

SMNS 16270 , incomplete cranium ( paratype 1); SMNS 18380 , partial mandible ( paratype 2). Nosotti and Pinna (1996) suggested that three isolated fragments of dermal armor ( SMNS 15891 c, 16725, and 81600) are possibly referable to Cyamodus kuhnschnyderi .

Diagnosis.

Distinguished by the following combination of features: nasals fused; frontal lacking anterolateral process; anteromedial process of parietal embraced by frontal; furrow with three foramina along anteroventral margin of orbit; and epipterygoid incompletely ossified in adults (Rieppel 2001).

References.

Nosotti and Pinna (1993, 1996), Rieppel and Hagdorn (1999), Rieppel (2000, 2001 a).

Figures

Figure 6. Reptiles from the Muschelkalk Group. A, B. Placodontid placodont Placodus gigas, holotype (SNSB-BSPG AS VII 1208), cranium in ventral view (A) and mandible in occlusal view (B). Scale bar: 2 cm. Photographs courtesy of O. W. M. Rauhut (SNSB-BSPG). C. Cyamodontid placodont Cyamodus kuhnschnyderi, holotype (SMNS 15855), cranium in ventral view. Scale bar: 2 cm.