Rhinesuchoides tenuiceps, OLSON & BROOM, 1937

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 : 369-370

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scientific name	Rhinesuchoides tenuiceps
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RHINESUCHOIDES TENUICEPS OLSON & BROOM, 1937

Rhinesuchus avenanti Boonstra, 1940: 195 [synonymized by Watson (1962: 72)].

Rhinesuchus rubidgei Broom, 1948: 579 [synonymized by Schoch & Milner (2000: 71)].

370 C. A. MARSICANO ET AL.

Holotype: FMNH UC 1519 , a skull ( Fig. 9A–D View Figure 9 ) associated with a partial left mandibular ramus.

Type locality and horizon: Farm Stinkfontein, Prince Albert District (Western Cape Province, South Africa) from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, Guadalupian ( Rubidge et al., 2013) .

Remarks: The mandibular ramus is, at present, considered missing. Schoch & Milner (2000) referred to three additional specimens of R. tenuiceps, BP /1/2741, BP/1/2931 and BP/1/2958. Specimen BP/1/2741 is a therapsid pelvis and specimens BP/1/2931 and

BP/1/2958 are very small undetermined rhinesuchid juveniles (see Damiani & Rubidge, 2003).