Yuanansuchus

Yuanansuchus is an extinct genus of mastodonsauroid temnospondyl. Fossils have been found from the Xinlingzhen formation in Yuan'an County, Hubei, China and date back to the Anisian stage of the Middle Triassic.^[1]

Yuanansuchus Temporal range: Anisian
Holotype skull, Paleozoological Museum of China
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Tetrapoda
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Suborder:	†Stereospondyli
Clade:	†Capitosauria
Family:	†Heylerosauridae
Genus:	†Yuanansuchus Liu and Wang, 2005
Species
Y. laticeps Liu and Wang, 2005 (type)

See also

• Paleontology portal

• Prehistoric amphibian
• List of prehistoric amphibians