Isodectes

Isodectes
Temporal range: Early Permian
Restoration of Isodectes obtusus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Dvinosauria
Family: Eobrachyopidae
Genus: Isodectes
Cope, 1896
Type species
Isodectes obtusus
(Cope, 1896 [originally Dendrerpeton obtusus])
Synonyms
  • Saurerpeton Moodie, 1909

Isodectes is an extinct genus of dvinosaurian temnospondyl within the family Eobrachyopidae. The genus Saurerpeton, named in 1909, is considered to be a junior synonym of Isodectes.[1]

References

  1. Sequeira, S. E. K. (1998). "The cranial morphology and taxonomy of the saurerpetontid Isodectes obtusus comb. Nov. (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the Lower Permian of Texas". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 122: 237–259. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb02531.x.


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