Kashmirosaurus

Kashmirosaurus Temporal range: Late Carboniferous or Early Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Family:	†Archegosauridae
Subfamily:	†Melosaurinae
Genus:	†Kashmirosaurus Werneburg and Schneider, 1996
Type species
†Kashmirosaurus ornatus (Woodward, 1905 [originally Archegosaurus ornatus])
Synonyms
Archegosaurus kashmiriensis Tewari, 1960

Kashmirosaurus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian known from Permo-Carboniferous deposits in the region of Kashmir.^[1] It was originally named by English paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward in 1905 as a species of Archegosaurus called Archegosaurus ornatus. More recently, the species has been recognized as being distinct from Archegosaurus, and it was placed in its own genus Kashmirosaurus in 1996. An additional species of Archegosaurus, A. kashmiriensis, was named in 1960 from the same deposits in Kashmir, and is now considered synonymous with Kashmirosaurus ornatus.^[2]

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram modified from Ruta et al. (2007) showing the relationship of Kashmirosaurus to other archegosauroids:^[3]

Archegosauroidea

Sclerocephalus haeuseri Syndyodosuchus tetricus Cheliderpeton vrayni Cheliderpeton latirostre Intasuchus silvicola Melosaurinae Konzhukovia vetusta Tryphosuchus paucidens Koinia silantjevi Melosaurus uralensis Uralosuchus tverdochlebovae Archegosaurus dyscriton Archegosaurus decheni Collidosuchus tchudinovi Kashmirosaurus ornatus Australerpeton cosgriffi Bashkirosaurus cherdyncevi Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi Prionosuchus plummeri

References

1. Milner, A.S. (1978). "A reappraisal of the Early Permian amphibians Memonomemos dyscriton and Cricotillus brachydens" (PDF). Palaeontology 21 (3): 667–686.
2. Witzmann, F. (2007). "Cranial morphology and ontogeny of the Permo-Carboniferous temnospondyl Archegosaurus decheni Goldfuss, 1847 from the Saar–Nahe Basin, Germany". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 96 (2). doi:10.1017/S0263593300001279.
3. Ruta, Marcello; Pisani, Davide; Lloyd, Graeme T; Benton, Michael J (2007). "A supertree of Temnospondyli: Cladogenetic patterns in the most species-rich group of early tetrapods". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274 (1629): 3087–3095. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1250. PMC 2293949. PMID 17925278.