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Siderops
Fossil range: Early Jurassic
Siderops2DB
Scientific classification

Order:

Temnospondyli

Family:

Chigutisauridae

Genus:

Siderops

Species:

  • Siderops kehli

Siderops is an extinct genus of chigutisaurid temnospondyl from Early Jurassic of Australia.

It was recently argued that it should be reclassified as a brachyopoid.[1]

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  1. ^ J. Sébastien Steyer; Ross Damiani (2005). "A giant brachyopoid temnospondyl from the Upper Triassic or Lower Jurassic of Lesotho". Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 176 (3): 243–248. doi:10.2113/176.3.243.