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SUPRADAPEDON
(su-pra-dap-e-don)
Named By: Sankar Chatterjee in 1980
Time Period: Middle - Late Triassic
Location: Tanzania
Size: Unavailable
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Partial remains
Classification: | Chordata | Archosauromorpha | Rhynchosauria | Hyperodapedontidae | Hyperodapedontinae |
Also known as: | Scaphonyx stockleyi |
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Supradapedon is an extinct genus of hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur from mid-late Triassic deposits of Tanganyika Territory, Tanzania. It is known from the holotype SAM-11704. The holotype and only specimen of Supradapedon was first assigned to a species of Scaphonyx (now considered to be a nomen dubium), Scaphonyx stockleyi. This species was reassigned to its own genus by Sankar Chatterjee in 1980 and the type species is Supradapedon stockleyi. One study, Langer et al. (2000), concluded that Supradapedon is a synonym of Hyperodepedon and referred it to Hyperodepedon sp. However, the provisional validity of this genus has been commonly accepted since.

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