Rileymillerus

Rileymillerus
Temporal range: Late Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Order:Temnospondyli
Suborder:Stereospondyli
Superfamily:Metoposauroidea
Genus:Rileymillerus
Bolt and Chatterjee, 2000
Type species
Rileymillerus cosgriffi
Bolt and Chatterjee, 2000

Rileymillerus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Late Triassic of Texas.[1] It is closely related to metoposaurids.[2]

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram from Schoch (2008):

Stereospondyli

Rhinesuchidae

Lydekkerina

Rhytidosteidae

Brachyopoidea

Siderops

Batrachosuchus

Laidleria

Plagiosauroidea

Gerrothorax

Plagiosaurus

Capitosauroidea

Trematosauria

Aphaneramma

Trematolestes

Lyrocephaliscus

Rileymillerus

Almasaurus

Callistomordax

Metoposauridae

References

  1. Bolt, John R.; Chatterjee, Sankar (2000). "A New Temnospondyl Amphibian from the Late Triassic of Texas". Journal of Paleontology. 74 (4): 670. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2000)074<0670:ANTAFT>2.0.CO;2.
  2. Schoch, R. R. (2008). "A new stereospondyl from the German Middle Triassic, and the origin of the Metoposauridae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 152: 79–113. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00363.x.


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