Genus: Protorosaurus MEYER, 1830
Etymology:
= Proterosaurus AGASSIZ, 1846 (sic)
= Protosaurus DUMERIL & BIBRON, 1836 (sic)
Species: speneri MEYER, 1830
Etymology:
Holotype: Royal Collage of Surgeons 308
Lectotype: NHMW 1943I4
Locality: Glucksbrunn, near Eisenach, Thuringia State, Germany.
Horizon: Zechstein Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Kupferschiefer, Ufimian Stage, Lowermost Guadelupian Stage, Lowermost Zechistein Epoch, Late Permian.
Material: Nearly complete skeleton mising the skull.
Referred material:
BRANDT, MUNK & MUNK, 2015
Locality: Sangerhausen, Saxony-Anhalt State, Germany.
Horizon: Kupferschiefer (copper shale).
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Permian.
Material:
Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde Karlsruhe: Fragmentary caudal vertebrae.
EVENS & KING, 1993
Locality: From a spoil heap at Quarrington Quarry (NZ 329 378) from a railway cutting near Middridge Quarry, about 10 km south-east of Durhma, Durham County, England.
Horizon: Marl Slate.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Ufimian-Lowest Kazanian Stage, Lower-Middle Guadelupian Stage, Lowermost Zeichistein Epoch, Late Permian.
Material:
Tyne and Wear county Museums Service, TWCMS S1348.1 (Mainblock) and TWCMS S1348.2 (counterpart block): Fragmentary skull and fragmentary skeleton.
HANCOCK, 1870
Locality: Midderidge, Durham, Durham County, England.
Horizon: Marl Slate.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Ufimian-Lowest Kazanian Stage, Lower-Middle Guadelupian Stage, Lowermost Zeichistein Epoch, Late Permian.
Material:
NEWHM G.055.46: 2 neural arches, 9 dorsal, 2 sacral and 10 caudal vertebrae.
LYDEKKER, 1888
Locality: Heidelberg near Schweina in Thuringia State, Germany.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Permian.
Material:
BMNH R1242, 42760: Fragmentary skeletons.
MUNK & SUES, 1993
Locality: Richelsdorf Mountainous, Hesse State, Germany.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Kupferschiefer, Ufimian Stage, Lowermost Guadelupian Stage, Lowermost Zechistein Epoch, Late Permian.
Material:
Bartholomaus-Simon personal collection: Fragmentary skeleton with stomach contents of the conifer Ullmannia frumentaria.
Note: Also found with gastroliths.
SEELEY, 1887
Locality: Thuringia State, Germany.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Permian.
Material:
Number: Not given: Fragmentary specimen.
Number: Not given: Freiberg: Fragmentary specimen.
Number: Not given: Berlin: Fragmentary specimen.
WEILGELT, 1932
Locality: Richelsdorf Mountains, Hesse State, Germany.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Kupferschiefer, Ufimian Stage, Lowermost Guadelupian Stage, Lowermost Zechistein Epoch, Late Permian.
Material:
Number: Not given: Fragmentary skeleton.
= Protorosaurus huxleyi HANCHOCK, 1870
Etymology: In honr of Thomas Henry Huxley.Holotype:
Locality: Midderidge, Durham, Durham County, England.
Horizon: Marl Slate.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Ufimian-Lowest Kazanian Stage, Lower-Middle Guadelupian Stage, Lowermost Zeichistein Epoch, Late Permian.
Material: Cervicals, dorsal vertebrae, ribs, scapula, coracoid, humeri, ulnae, fibula, metatarsals, right femur, right tibia, right fibula and some foot bones.
= Protorosaurus linkii SEELEY, 1887
= Protorosaurus lincki ZITTEL, 1902 (sic)
Etymology: In honor of Link, who described the specimen.Holotype: Waldenberg specimen.
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