Mattauschia

Extinct genus of amphibians

Mattauschia
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous, 311.45–306.95 Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Temnospondyli
Family: Trematopidae
Genus: Mattauschia
Milner, 2018
Type species
Mattauschia laticeps[1]
(Fritsch, 1881)

Mattauschia is an extinct genus of trematopid temnospondyls from the Late Carboniferous of the Czech Republic.

Taxonomy

The type species of Mattauschia, M. laticeps, was named Limnerpeton laticeps by Fritsch (1881) for a small post-metamorphic specimen from Late Carboniferous coal deposits in the Czech Republic.[2] Milner and Sequeira (2003) synonymized it and the nominal species Limnerpeton macrolepis with Mordex calliprepes, interpreting them as representing growth stages of one trematopid species.[3] Milner (2018) eventually recognized laticeps as distinct from the M. calliprepes holotype, so he erected Mattauschia for laticeps, which includes the lectotype specimen NMP M470/471 as well as the paralectotype NMP M639 and Limnerpeton macrolepis lectotype NMP M472.[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b Andrew R. Milner (2018). "Two primitive trematopid amphibians (Temnospondyli, Dissorophoidea) from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 109 (1–2): 201–223. doi:10.1017/S1755691018000725.
  2. ^ Fritsch, A. 1881. Fauna der Gaskohle und der Kalksteine der Perm− formations Böhmens. Band 1 Heft 3, 127–158. Selbstverlag, Prague.
  3. ^ Milner, A.R. and Sequeira, S.E.K. 2003. Revision of the amphibian genus Limnerpeton (Temnospondyli) from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48 (1): 123–141.
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