Biology:Archegosauridae

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Short description: Extinct family of amphibians

Archegosauridae
Temporal range: Early Permian-Late Permian 297–252 Ma
Archegosaurus decheni Tubingen 4.JPG
Archegosaurus decheni fossil at the paleontological collection of the Museum of the University of Tübingen
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Temnospondyli
Superfamily: Archegosauroidea
Family: Archegosauridae
Lydekker, 1885
Genera

Platyoposaurinae

Melosaurinae

Archegosauridae is a family of relatively large and long snouted temnospondyls that lived in the Permian period. They were fully aquatic animals, and were metabolically and physiologically more similar to fish than modern amphibians.[1] The family has been divided into two subfamilies, the longer-snouted Platyoposaurinae and the shorter-snouted Melosaurinae.

Gallery

Platyoposaurinae

Melosaurinae

References

  1. Florian Witzmann; Elizabeth Brainerd (2017). "Modeling the physiology of the aquatic temnospondyl Archegosaurus decheni from the early Permian of Germany". Fossil Record. 20 (2): 105–127. doi:10.5194/fr-20-105-2017.
  • Ruta, M., Pisani, D., Lloyd, G. T. and Benton, M. 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: 3087–3095.

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