Anaschisma

Anaschisma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Superclass: Tetrapoda
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Stereospondyli
Infraorder: Trematosauria
Superfamily: Metoposauroidea
Family: Metoposauridae
Genus: Anaschisma
Branson, 1905

Anaschisma is a poorly known genus of prehistoric amphibian, from the Late Triassic (Carnian age) of the American Southwest, first described from the Popo Agie Formation of Wyoming. In one early cladistic analysis it appears as an advanced or highly derived form.[1] Some specimens attributed to Anaschisma sp. belong to Apachesaurus [2]

References

  1. Hunt, A.P. 1989. Comments on the taxonomy of North American metoposaurs and a preliminary phylogenetic analysis of the family Metoposauridae, in Lucas, SG and Hunt, AP, eds., Dawn of the age of dinosaurs in the American Southwest, pp. 292-300 Albuquerque, New Mexico Museum of Natural History.
  2. Sulej, T., 2002: Species discrimination of the Late Triassic temnospondyl amphibian Metoposaurus diagnosticus. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica: Vol. 47, #3, pp. 535-546

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