Godavarisaurus

Godavarisaurus is an extinct genus of sphenodontian reptile from the Early-Middle Jurassic Kota Formation of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is known from jaw fragments (including the maxilla, premaxilla, and parts of the dentary). It was a small sphenodontian, with the skull estimated to be less than 2 centimetres (0.79 in) long.^[1] It is generally considered to be a relatively basal sphenodontian that lies outside Eusphenodontia.^[2]

Godavarisaurus Temporal range: Early Jurassic PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Rhynchocephalia
Suborder:	Sphenodontia
Genus:	†Godavarisaurus Evans et al., 2001
Type species
†G. lateefi Evans et al., 2001[1]

Cladogram following Sues and Schoch, 2023:^[3]

Rhynchocephalia Wirtembergia hauboldae Gephyrosaurus bridensis Sphenodontia Diphydontosaurus avonis Acrosphenodontia Planocephalosaurus robinsonae Rebbanasaurus jaini Godavarisaurus lateefi Theretairus antiquus Eusphenodontia Polysphenodon mulleri Opisthiamimus gregori Clevosauridae Clevosaurus convallis Clevosaurus brasiliensis Clevosaurus hadroprodon Clevosaurus bairdi Clevosaurus hudsoni Clevosaurus cambrica Neosphenodontia

See also

• Paleontology portal

• Rhynchocephalia

References

1. Evans, S. E.; Prasad, G. V. R.; Manhas, B. K. (2001). "Rhynchocephalians (Diapsida: Lepidosauria) from the Jurassic Kota Formation of India". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 133 (3): 309–334. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb00629.x.
2. Anantharaman, S.; DeMar, David G.; Sivakumar, R.; Dassarma, Dilip Chandra; Wilson Mantilla, Gregory P.; Wilson Mantilla, Jeffrey A. (2022-06-30). "First rhynchocephalian (Reptilia, Lepidosauria) from the Cretaceous–Paleogene of India". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 42 (1). doi:10.1080/02724634.2022.2118059. ISSN 0272-4634.
3. Sues, Hans-Dieter; Schoch, Rainer R. (2023-11-07). "The oldest known rhynchocephalian reptile from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of Germany and its phylogenetic position among Lepidosauromorpha". The Anatomical Record. doi:10.1002/ar.25339. ISSN 1932-8486. PMID 37937325. S2CID 265050255.