Rhinesuchus, Broom, 1908

Marsicano, Claudia A., Latimer, Elizabeth, Rubidge, Bruce & Smith, Roger M. H., 2017, The Rhinesuchidae and early history of the Stereospondyli (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) at the end of the Palaeozoic, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 181, pp. 357-384 : 371

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlw032
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F12D08-FFD0-FFDE-A07D-EC01E520F8FB
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Rhinesuchus
status

Treatment

‘ RHINESUCHUS RUBIDGEI’ BROOM, 1948

Holotype: RC 73 ( Fig. 10A View Figure 10 ), a complete skull with the palate unprepared.

Type locality and horizon: The specimen was collected at Wimbledon from exposures of the ‘ Cistecephalus zone’ ( Haughton, 1915) in the Graaff-Reinet district (Eastern Cape Province, South Africa), Lopingian ( Rubidge et al., 2013).

R e f e r r e d s p e c i m e n s: R C 6 4 5, a c r u s h e d a n d distorted skull.

Remarks: Broom described the new taxon in a short paper but did not provide reasons for the creation of the new species apart from saying that the specimen is ‘in a suitable condition to be made the type’ ( Broom, 1948: 579). The author mentioned a second skull ( RC 645) from the Rubidge Collection as belonging to the same new species ( Broom, 1948: 579).

Status: In the present revision and after examination of the holotype, R. rubidgei Broom is considered a junior synonym of R. tenuiceps Olson and Broom , as was previously proposed by Schoch & Milner (2000) and Damiani & Rubidge (2003).