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Anaschisma
Fossil range:
Life reconstruction of Anaschisma browni
Scientific classification

Kingdom:

Animalia

Phylum:

Chordata

Class:

Amphibia

Order:

Temnospondyli

Superfamily:

Metoposauroidea

Family:

Metoposauridae

Genus:

Anaschisma

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. 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


See also[]

Crassigyrinus BW