Isodectes
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| Isodectes Temporal range: Early Permian | |
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| Restoration of Isodectes obtusus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | "Amphibia" (wide sense) |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Suborder: | †Dvinosauria |
| Family: | †Eobrachyopidae |
| Genus: | †Isodectes Cope, 1896 |
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| †Isodectes obtusus (Cope, 1896 [originally Dendrerpeton obtusus]) | |
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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
- ↑ 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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