Compsocerops
Compsocerops Temporal range: Carnian-Norian
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | †Temnospondyli |
Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
Family: | †Chigutisauridae |
Genus: | †Compsocerops Sengupta, 1995 |
Species: | †C. cosgriffi
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Binomial name | |
†Compsocerops cosgriffi Sengupta, 1995
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Compsocerops is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibians recovered from the Late Triassic Upper Maleri Formation of India,[1] and the Santa Maria Formation of Brazil.[2]
References[]
- ^ D. P. Sengupta. 1995. Chigutisaurid temnospondyls from the Late Triassic of India and a review of the Family Chigutisauridae. Palaeontology 38(2):313-339
- ^ Dias-da-Silva, Sérgio, et al. 2011. The presence of Compsocerops (Brachyopoidea: Chigutisauridae) (Late Triassic) in southern Brazil with comments on chigutisaurid palaeobiogeography. Palaeontology 55(1):163-172
Categories:
- Chigutisaurids
- Prehistoric amphibian genera
- Carnian genera
- Norian genera
- Triassic temnospondyls of Asia
- Triassic India
- Fossils of India
- Triassic temnospondyls of South America
- Triassic Brazil
- Fossils of Brazil
- Fossil taxa described in 1995
- Prehistoric amphibian stubs
- Triassic animal stubs