Platycepsion

Platycepsion
	Partial skeleton, drawn in 1887
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Suborder:	†Stereospondyli
Family:	†Brachyopidae
Genus:	†Platycepsion; Kuhn 1964
Species:	†P. wilksoni
Binomial name
	†Platycepsion wilksoni; (Stephens, 1887)

Platycepsion wilksoni is an extinct species of prehistoric amphibian, known from partial skeleton deposited in shale at the Gosford Quarry site of the Terrigal Formation in Australia.

Taxonomy[]

The species is assigned to a currently monotypic genus, the synonym Platyceps wilkinsonii, a name published in 1887 by the Australian palaeontologist William Stephens, was nominated as the type. A revision in 1964 by Oskar Kuhn assigned the species to the genus Platycepsion to replace the earlier combination, which was invalidated by an earlier use of the name Platyceps for a colubrid genus of snakes. Another revising author named the species as the type for a new genus, Blinasaurus,^[3] unaware of Kuhn's replacement of the name, and placed a second species in the same genus, later separated to a new combination as Batrachosuchus henwoodi.^[4]

The author noted the epithet Wilkinsonii in the first description as commemorating the deputy chair of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, C. S. Wilkinson.^[1]

References[]

^ ^a ^b Stephens, W.J. (1887). "On some additional labyrinthodont fossils from the Hawkesbury sandstones of New South Wales. (Platyceps Wilkinsonii, and two unnamed specimens.)". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 1: 1175–1192.
^ O. Kuhn. 1964. Ungelöste Probleme der Stammesgeschichte der Amphibien und Reptilien [Unsolved problems of the phylogeny of amphibians and reptiles]. Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 118/119:293-325
^ (1969). "Blinasaurus, a brachyopid genus from Western Australia and New South Wales". Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia. The Society. 52 (3): 65–90.
^ Warren, Anne; Marsicano, Claudia (17 April 2000). "Banksiops, a replacement name for Banksia townrowi (Amphibia, Temnospondyli)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 20 (1): 186. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0186:BARNFB]2.0.CO;2.

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[Stephens1887-1] Stephens, W.J. (1887). "On some additional labyrinthodont fossils from the Hawkesbury sandstones of New South Wales. (Platyceps Wilkinsonii, and two unnamed specimens.)". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 1: 1175–1192.

[Kuhn1964-2] O. Kuhn. 1964. Ungelöste Probleme der Stammesgeschichte der Amphibien und Reptilien [Unsolved problems of the phylogeny of amphibians and reptiles]. Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 118/119:293-325

[Cosgriff1969-3] (1969). "Blinasaurus, a brachyopid genus from Western Australia and New South Wales". Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia. The Society. 52 (3): 65–90.

[Warren2000a-4] Warren, Anne; Marsicano, Claudia (17 April 2000). "Banksiops, a replacement name for Banksia townrowi (Amphibia, Temnospondyli)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 20 (1): 186. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0186:BARNFB]2.0.CO;2.

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