Xenobrachyops
Temporal range: Early Triassic, Olenekian
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Holotype skull of X. allos
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: †Temnospondyli
Suborder: †Stereospondyli
Family: †Brachyopidae
Genus: †Xenobrachyops
Warren and Hutchinson 1983
Species:
†X. allos
Binomial name
†Xenobrachyops allos
(Howie, 1972)
Synonyms
  • Brachyops allos Howie, 1972

Xenobrachyops is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Olenekian Arcadia Formation of Australia, describing a single species, Xenobrachyops allos.[1] It is estimated to have been around fifty centimetres long and its diet would have consisted of fish and insects.

Fossils of Xenobrachyops have been found in the Arcadia Formation at Rewan, central Queensland.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Warren, A.A. & Hutchinson, M.N., (1983). The last labyrinthodont? A new brachyopoid (Amphibia, Temnospondyli) from the Early Jurassic Evergreen Formation of Queensland, Australia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 303, 1–62.
  2. ^ Howie, A. (1972). "A brachyopid labyrinthodont from the Lower Trias of Queensland". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 96: 268–277.
  3. ^ "Fossilworks: Xenobrachyops". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.


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