Brachyopidae
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Brachyopidae is an extinct family of temnospondyls.[1] They evolved in the early Mesozoic and were mostly aquatic. A fragmentary find from Lesotho, Africa is estimated to have been Script error: No such module "convert". long, the largest amphibian ever known to have lived besides Prionosuchus and Mastodonsaurus.[2] Brachyopids were the only group of temnospondyls to survive into the Jurassic aside from their sister family Chigutisauridae; there are records of brachyopids from the Jurassic of Asia.
List of genera
- Banksiops
- Bathignathus
- Batrachosaurus
- Batrachosuchoides
- Batrachosuchus
- Brachyops
- Gobiops
- Notobrachyops
- ?Pachygonia
- Platycepsion
- Sinobrachyops
- Vanastega
- Vigilius
- Xenobrachyops
References
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- ↑ Warren, A. A., & Marsicano, C. (1998) Revision of the Brachyopidae (Temnospondyli) from the Triassic of the Sydney, Carnarvon and Tasmania Basin, Australia: Alcheringa v. 22, p. 329-342.
- ↑ Steyer, J.S. & Damiani, R. (2005): A giant brachyopoid temnospondyl from the Upper Triassic or Lower Jurassic of Lesotho. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, no. 3: pp 243-248. Script error: No such module "CS1 identifiers". abstract
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