Biology:Uralosuchus
| Uralosuchus Temporal range: Late Permian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Family: | †Archegosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Melosaurinae |
| Genus: | †Uralosuchus Gubin, 1993 |
| Type species | |
| †Uralosuchus tverdochlebovae Gubin, 1993
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Uralosuchus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Late Permian of Russia, belonging to the group Archegosauroidea. It is a member of the archegosauroidean subfamily Melosaurinae. Fossils have been found in Orenburg Oblast. Uralosuchus was named in 1993 with the description of the type species U. tverdochlebovae.[1]
Phylogeny
Below is a cladogram modified from Ruta et al. (2007) showing the relationship of Uralosuchus to other archegosauroids:[2]
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References
- ↑ Shishkin, M.A.; Novikov, I.V.; Gubin, Y.M. (2003). "Permian and Triassic temnospondyls from Russia". The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 35–59. ISBN 9780521545822. https://books.google.com/books?id=VRPwsF3cpPAC&q=dvinosaurus&pg=PA53.
- ↑ Ruta, Marcello; Pisani, Davide; Lloyd, Graeme T; Benton, Michael J (2007). "A supertree of Temnospondyli: Cladogenetic patterns in the most species-rich group of early tetrapods". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274 (1629): 3087–3095. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1250. PMID 17925278.
Wikidata ☰ Q7899614 entry
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