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

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‘ RHINESUCHUS BEAUFORTENSIS’ BOONSTRA, 1940

Holotype: SAM-PK-3009, an almost complete skull ( Figs 2A–D View Figure 2 , 3A–D View Figure 3 ), with two-thirds of the left hemimandible and three fragments of the right hemimandible, including the anteriormost third and the articular region.

Type locality and horizon: Collected from an unknown locality near Beaufort West (Western Cape Province, South Africa) and referred to the ‘ Endothiodon zone’ by Haughton (1915: 67), at present the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone, Lopingian ( Rubidge et al., 2013) .

Remarks: The species R. beaufortensis was based only on differences on skull proportions and size relative to the holotype of R. whaitsi ( Boonstra, 1940) .

Status: In the present revision, R. beaufortensis is considered a junior synonym of Rhinesuchus whaitsi Broom , as has also been suggested in previous reviews ( Schoch & Milner, 2000; Damiani & Rubidge, 2003).