Lapillopsis
Lapillopsis is an extinct genus of stereospondyl temnospondyl within the family Lapillopsidae. Fossils belonging to the genus have been found in the Arcadia Formation (Rewan Group) of Queensland, Australia. The type species is L. nana.[1]
Lapillopsis Temporal range: Early Triassic | |
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Restoration of Lapillopsis nana | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Temnospondyli |
Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
Family: | †Lapillopsidae |
Genus: | †Lapillopsis Warren and Hutchinson, 1990 |
Type species | |
†Lapillopsis nana Warren and Hutchinson, 1990 |
Lapillopsis was found as the sister to Rotaurisaurus in a 1999 analysis that found the Lapillopsidae as basal stereospondyls.[2] Lapillopsis was found as a sister to Dissorophoidea by a 2017 analysis.[3] Another relative of Lapillopsis, Manubrantlia was described from the Early Triassic of India. [4]
See also
- List of prehistoric amphibians
References
- Warren, A. A.; Hutchinson, M. N. (1990). "Lapillopsis, a new genus of temnospondyl amphibians from the Early Triassic of Queensland". Alcheringa. 14 (2): 149–158. doi:10.1080/03115519008527816.
- Yates, A. M. 1999. The Lapillopsidae: a new family of small temnospondyls from the Early Triassic of Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19: 302-320. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.1999.10011143
- Pardo, J. D., Small, B. J., Huttenlocker, A. K. 2017. Stem caecilian from the Triassic of Colorado sheds light on the origins of Lissamphibia. PNAS. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1706752114
- Yates & Sengupta, 2002. A lapillopsid temnospondyl from the Early Triassic of India. Alcheringa 26: 201-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115510208619252
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