Platyoposaurus
Name:
Platyoposaurus
(flat face lizard).
Phonetic: Plat-e-top-o-sore-us.
Named By: Tvelvetrees - 1880?
Classification: Chordata, Amphibia,
Temnospondyli, Archegosauridae.
Species: P. rickardi
(type), P. stuckenbergi, P. vjuschkovi, P.
watsoni.
Diet: Carnivore/Piscivore.
Size: Estimated about 2.5 meters long.
Known locations: Russia - Amanakskaya Formation.
Time period: Capitanian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: Several individuals,
usually from skull fossils.
Platyoposaurus
is a genus of temnospondyl amphibian that looked a lot like a crocodile
with a long snout. Like other temnospondyls, Platyoposaurus
would
have been a predator, primarily of aquatic organisms such as fish and
other amphibians.
There
has been speculation that the possibly gigantic Prionosuchus
from South
America could be synonymous with Platyoposaurus,
though since this
claim was made in 1991, other researchers continue to list these
genera as separate, though similar.
Further reading
- Part III - Palaeozoology. Vertebrata. Manual of
palaeontology for the use of students with a general introduction on
the principles of palaeontology. - Volume II. 3rd edn. William
Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London 600 p. - R.
Lydekker - 1889.
- Concerning the systematic position of the labyrinthodonts from the
Malaya Kinel' locality, Orenburg Oblast [O sistematicheskom
polozhenii labirintodontov iz mestonakhozhdeniya Malaya Kinel'
(Orenburgskaya oblast').] . - Paleontologicheskiy Zhurnal,
Moscow 3:116-120. - Y. U. M. Gubin - 1989.
- Fishes and amphibians from the Late Permian Pedra de Fogo Formation
of Northern Brazil. - Palaeontology, 34(3): 561-573. -
C. B. Cox & P. Hutchinson - 1991.
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