Genus of hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur from the Late Triassic
Beesiiwo
Temporal range: Carnian, 237–227 Ma
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Holotype of Beesiiwo
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Clade:
Archosauromorpha
Order:
†Rhynchosauria
Family:
†Rhynchosauridae
Subfamily:
†Hyperodapedontinae
Genus:
†Beesiiwo Fitch et al., 2023
Type species
†Beesiiwo cooowuse
Fitch et al., 2023
Beesiiwo (IPA:[bæsiwɒʔ]) (meaning "big lizard") is a genus of hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur from the Late Triassic Popo Agie Formation in Western Wyoming. The type and only species is B. cooowuse, known from four specimens consisting of left and right maxilla fragments, and a left dentary fragment.[1]
^Fitch, Adam; Haas, Merle; C'Hair, Wayne; Ridgley, Eugene; Ridgley, Ben; Oldman, Devin; Reynolds, Crystal; Lovelace, David (10 April 2023). "A New Rhynchosaur Taxon from the Popo Agie Formation, WY: Implications for a Northern Pangean Early-Late Triassic (Carnian) Fauna". Diversity. 15 (4): 544. doi:10.3390/d15040544. hdl:10919/114487.
Beesiiwo (IPA: [bæsiwɒʔ]) (meaning "big lizard") is a genus of hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur from the Late Triassic Popo Agie Formation in Western Wyoming...
huxleyi, Supradapedon for H. stockleyi) while others are newly named (Beesiiwo, Oryctorhynchus). The type species H. gordoni would be the only species...
interpretation. In their cladistic analysis of the newly described taxon Beesiiwo, Fitch et al. (2023) recovered Macrocephalosaurus as more closely related...
navajoi Anisian US (Arizona) Moenkopi Formation A stenaulorhynchine. Beesiiwo B. cooowuse Carnian US (Wyoming) Popo Agie Formation A hyperodapedontine...
remains; both from Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming A rauisuchian (in background) Beesiiwo cooowuse USNM 494329, a left maxilla and left dentary from Hole in the...
the Nova Scotian species is Oryctorhynchus, and the Wyoming species is Beesiiwo. Fossils from the "Isalo II" beds of Madagascar are broadly comparable...
Formation of Nova Scotia, Canada that may have been the same animal as Beesiiwo. The type species, O. bairdi, was named and described in 2020. It was originally...
member of the family Dinocephalosauridae. The type species is A. minuta. Beesiiwo Gen. et sp. nov Fitch et al. Late Triassic (Carnian) Popo Agie Formation...
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