Genus: Dinosaurus FISCHER, 1847
Etymology: Greek, deinos, "fearfully great" and Greek, sauros, "lizard."
= Phthinosuchus EFREMOV, 1954
Etymology: Greek, phthino, "waste, decline, wane" and Greek, soukhos, "crocodile": Declining
crocodile.
= Rhopalodon SEELEY, 1894
Etymology:
Species: murchisoni FISCHER, 1847
Etymology:
= Rhopalodon murchisoni PAND, 1898
Etymology:
Holotype: PIN 296/1
Locality: Klyuchevskii Rudnik-1 locality (Klyucheskii Mine-1 Locality), Sterlibashevskii District, Klyuchevskoi Copper Mine, Bashkortostan Region, European Russia.
Horizon: Biarmian Series, Upper Kazanian Substage-Urzhumian Stage.
Biostratigraphy: Ocher Faunal Assemblage, Ocher Faunal Subassemblage.
Age: Lower Tatarian Age, (Upper Kazansky?) Capitanian Stage, Middle Zechstein Epoch, Late Middle Permian.
Material: Fragmentary skull.
Referred material:
= Phthinosuchus discors EFREMOV, 1954
Etymology:
= Rhapalodon sp SEELEY, 1894
= Rhopalodon fischeri WATSON, 1921Holotype: PIN 1954/3
Locality: Uralian Cupric Sandstones, Demsky mine (Kliochevsky or Durasovsky mine? BRINK, 1986) Bashkiry, Western Cisuraly, European Russia.
Note: From IVAKHNENKO, 2008a, Locality: Klyuchevskii Rudnik-1 locality (Klyucheskii Mine-1 Locality), Sterlibashevskii District, Klyuchevskoi Copper Mine, Bashkortostan Region, European Russia.
Horizon: Biarmian Series.
Biostratigraphy: Ocher Faunal Assemblage, Ocher Faunal Subassemblage.
Age: Lower Tatarian Age, (Upper Kazansky?) Capitanian Stage, Middle Zechstein Epoch, Late Middle Permian.
Material: Distal end of skull and dentary.
Referred material:
LGM.ChMP no. 3: Fragmentary skull and dentary.