Chigutisauridae
Chigutisauridae Temporal range:
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Pelorocephalus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | †Temnospondyli |
Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
Superfamily: | †Brachyopoidea |
Family: | †Chigutisauridae Rusconi, 1949 |
Chigutisauridae is an extinct family of large temnospondyl amphibians. The only genera recognized as belonging to Chigutisauridae at the current time are all from Gondwana. Chigutisaurids first appeared during the Early Triassic in Australia. During the Late Triassic they became widely distributed in Gondwana, with fossils found in South Africa, India and South America.[1] Koolasuchus from the Early Cretaceous of Australia represents the youngest known temnospondyl.
List of genera[]
- Compsocerops
- Keratobrachyops (placement uncertain)
- Koolasuchus
- Kuttycephalus
- Pelorocephalus
- Siderops
References[]
- ^ DIAS-da-SILVA, Sérgio; Sengupta, Dhurjati P.; Cabreira, Sérgio F.; Da Silva, Lúcio R. (January 2012). "The presence of Compsocerops (Brachyopoidea: Chigutisauridae) (Late Triassic) in southern Brazil with comments on chigutisaurid palaeobiogeography: INDIAN CHIGUTISAURID GENUS IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL". Palaeontology. 55 (1): 163–172. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01120.x.
- Sengupta, D.P. 1995. Chigutisaurid temnspondyls from the Late Triassic of India and a review of the family Chigutisauridae. Palaeontology 38: 19-59.
- Sengupta, D.P. 2003. Triassic temnospondyls of the Pranhita-Godavari Basin, India. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 21: 655-662.
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Categories:
- Chigutisaurids
- Triassic temnospondyls
- Jurassic temnospondyls
- Cretaceous temnospondyls
- Amphibian families
- Early Triassic first appearances
- Olenekian taxonomic families
- Anisian taxonomic families
- Ladinian taxonomic families
- Carnian taxonomic families
- Norian taxonomic families
- Rhaetian taxonomic families
- Hettangian taxonomic families
- Sinemurian taxonomic families
- Pliensbachian taxonomic families
- Toarcian taxonomic families
- Aalenian taxonomic families
- Bajocian taxonomic families
- Bathonian taxonomic families
- Callovian taxonomic families
- Oxfordian taxonomic families
- Kimmeridgian taxonomic families
- Tithonian taxonomic families
- Berriasian taxonomic families
- Early Cretaceous extinctions