Cosgriffius | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | † Temnospondyli |
Suborder: | † Stereospondyli |
Family: | † Trematosauridae |
Subfamily: | † Lonchorhynchinae |
Genus: | †
Cosgriffius Welles, 1993 |
Species | |
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Cosgriffius is an extinct genus of trematosaurian temnospondyl within the family Trematosauridae. [1] [2] [3] It was described in 1993 by Samuel P. Welles based on a single partial skull from the well-known Meteor Crater Quarry (Early Triassic Moenkopi Formation) in Arizona that also produced more abundant remains of the capitosaur Wellesaurus peabodyi. [4] The skull was long and slender, features typically associated with the trematosaurid subfamily Lonchorhynchinae. This is the only trematosaurid known from western North America.
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Cosgriffius | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | † Temnospondyli |
Suborder: | † Stereospondyli |
Family: | † Trematosauridae |
Subfamily: | † Lonchorhynchinae |
Genus: | †
Cosgriffius Welles, 1993 |
Species | |
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Cosgriffius is an extinct genus of trematosaurian temnospondyl within the family Trematosauridae. [1] [2] [3] It was described in 1993 by Samuel P. Welles based on a single partial skull from the well-known Meteor Crater Quarry (Early Triassic Moenkopi Formation) in Arizona that also produced more abundant remains of the capitosaur Wellesaurus peabodyi. [4] The skull was long and slender, features typically associated with the trematosaurid subfamily Lonchorhynchinae. This is the only trematosaurid known from western North America.
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