Published December 4, 2025 | Version v1

Ebrachosaurus singularis Kuhn 1936

  • 1. Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, MRC 121, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA
  • 2. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany & Institut für Biologie, Universität Hohenheim, Garbenstrasse 30, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany

Description

Ebrachosaurus singularis Kuhn, 1936

Holotype.

Originally SNSB-BSPG, lost during WW II. Various postcranial bones, including right humerus, radius, and ulna, left ilium and partial pubis, right femur, and paramedian and ventral osteoderms (Kuhn 1936).

Type locality.

Former sandstone quarry at Ebrach, Bamberg district, Bavaria.

Type horizon.

Bed 13, Blasensandstein, Middle Keuper Subgroup. Age: Late Triassic (Carnian: Tuvalian).

Diagnosis.

Due to the loss of the holotype and only known specimen it is no longer possible to provide a diagnosis.

Comments.

Kuhn (1936) already recognized the stagonolepidid affinities of this taxon. Heckert and Lucas (2000) noted the close similarity of the holotype to Stagonolepis robertsoni and even considered Ebrachosaurus singularis a subjective junior synonym of the former.

References.

Kuhn (1936), Heckert and Lucas (2000).

Notes

Published as part of Sues, Hans-Dieter & Schoch, Rainer R., 2025, Synopsis of the Triassic reptiles from Germany, pp. 411-483 in Fossil Record 28 (2) on pages 411-483, DOI: 10.3897/fr.28.164405

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Kuhn
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Aetosauria
Family
Stagonolepididae
Genus
Ebrachosaurus
Species
singularis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ebrachosaurus singularis Kuhn, 1936 sec. Sues & Schoch, 2025

References

  • Kuhn O (1936) Weitere Parasuchier und Labyrinthodonten aus dem Blasensandstein des mittleren Keuper von Ebrach. Palaeontographica A 83: 61-98.
  • Kuhn O (1936) Weitere Parasuchier und Labyrinthodonten aus dem Blasensandstein des mittleren Keuper von Ebrach. Palaeontographica A 83: 61–98.
  • Heckert AB, Lucas SG (2000) Taxonomy, phylogeny, biostratigraphy, biochronology, paleobiogeography, and evolution of the Late Triassic Aetosauria (Archosauria: Crurotarsi). Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Teil I, 1998 (11–12): 1539–1587.