Name:
Anconastes
(mountain dweller).
Phonetic: An-co-nas-teez.
Named By: David S Berman, Robert R. Reisz
& David A. Eberth - 1987.
Classification: Chordata, Amphibia,
Temnospondyli, Trematopidae.
Species: A. vesperus (type).
Diet: Carnivore/insectivore/piscivore.
Size: Skull 9 centimetres long. Total length
estimated at 50 centimetres long.
Known locations: USA, New Mexico - Cutler
Formation.
Time period: Gzhelian of the Carboniferous.
Fossil representation: Skull and partial post
cranial remains.
Anconastes was a realtively small temnospondyl amphibian, and although the name means ‘mountain dweller’, Anconastes probably didn’t stray too far from the swamps and water systems of Carboniferous North America.
Further reading
- A new genus and species of trematopid amphibian from the Late
Pennsylvanian of north-central New Mexico, David S Berman, Robert
R. Reisz & David A. Eberth, 1987.
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