Anconastes

Anconastes
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Temnospondyli
Family: Trematopidae
Genus: Anconastes
Berman et al., 1987
Species
  • A. vesperus Berman et al., 1987 (type)

Anconastes is an extinct genus of dissorophoidean euskelian temnospondyl within the family Trematopidae. It is known from several fossils from the Late Carboniferous Cutler Formation of north-central New Mexico in the southwestern United States.[1]

References

  1. Berman, D.S.; Reisz, R.R.; Eberth, D.A. (1987). "A new genus and species of trematopid amphibian from the Late Pennsylvanian of north-central New Mexico". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 7 (3): 252–269. doi:10.1080/02724634.1987.10011659.


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