Uralosuchus

Uralosuchus Temporal range: Late Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Family:	†Archegosauridae
Subfamily:	†Melosaurinae
Genus:	†Uralosuchus Gubin, 1993
Type species
†Uralosuchus tverdochlebovae Gubin, 1993

Uralosuchus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Late Permian of Russia, belonging to the group Archegosauroidea. It is a member of the archegosauroidean subfamily Melosaurinae. Fossils have been found in Orenburg Oblast. Uralosuchus was named in 1993 with the description of the type species U. tverdochlebovae.^[1]

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram modified from Ruta et al. (2007) showing the relationship of Uralosuchus to other archegosauroids:^[2]

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. Shishkin, M.A.; Novikov, I.V.; Gubin, Y.M. (2003). "Permian and Triassic temnospondyls from Russia". In Benton, M.J.; Shishkin, M.A.; and Unwin, D.M. The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 35–59.
2. 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.