Koinia

Koinia; Temporal range: Late Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Family:	†Archegosauridae
Subfamily:	†Melosaurinae
Genus:	†Koinia; Gubin, 1993
Type species
	†Koinia silantjevi; Gubin, 1993

Koinia is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Late Permian of Russia. It is an archegosauroid in the subfamily Melosaurinae. Koinia was named in 1993 with the description of the type species K. silantjevi, based on fossils that were found in the , near the Vym River in the Komi Republic.^[1]

Phylogeny[]

Below is a cladogram modified from Ruta et al. (2007) showing the relationship of Koinia to other archegosauroids:^[2]

Archegosauroidea

	Sclerocephalus haeuseri

	Syndyodosuchus tetricus

Cheliderpeton vrayni

	Cheliderpeton latirostre

	Intasuchus silvicola

Melosaurinae

	Konzhukovia vetusta

	Tryphosuchus paucidens

Koinia silantjevi

	Melosaurus uralensis

	Uralosuchus tverdochlebovae

Archegosaurus dyscriton

Archegosaurus decheni

	Collidosuchus tchudinovi

	Kashmirosaurus ornatus

Australerpeton cosgriffi

Bashkirosaurus cherdyncevi

	Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi

	Prionosuchus plummeri

References[]

^ Shishkin, M.A.; Novikov, I.V.; Gubin, Y.M. (2003). "Permian and Triassic temnospondyls from Russia". In Benton, M.J.; Shishkin, M.A.; Unwin, D.M. (eds.). The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 35–59. ISBN 9780521545822.
^ Ruta, Marcello; Pisani, Davide; Lloyd, Graeme T; Benton, Michael J (2007). "A supertree of Temnospondyli: Cladogenetic patterns in the most species-rich group of early tetrapods". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 274 (1629): 3087–3095. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1250. PMC 2293949. PMID 17925278.

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[SNG-1] Shishkin, M.A.; Novikov, I.V.; Gubin, Y.M. (2003). "Permian and Triassic temnospondyls from Russia". In Benton, M.J.; Shishkin, M.A.; Unwin, D.M. (eds.). The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 35–59. ISBN 9780521545822.

[RPLB07-2] Ruta, Marcello; Pisani, Davide; Lloyd, Graeme T; Benton, Michael J (2007). "A supertree of Temnospondyli: Cladogenetic patterns in the most species-rich group of early tetrapods". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 274 (1629): 3087–3095. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1250. PMC 2293949. PMID 17925278.

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