Laidleria
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| Laidleria Temporal range: Early Triassic | |
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| Laidleria gracilis | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Temnospondyli |
| Superfamily: | Plagiosauroidea |
| Family: | Laidleriidae[1] Warren, 1998 |
| Genus: | Laidleria Kitching, 1957 |
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Laidleria is an extinct genus of unusual armored temnospondyl from Early Triassic of South Africa.[1] Its closest relative was Uruyiella.[2] Laidleria was 30-40 cm in length.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Anne Warren (1998). "Laidleria uncovered: a redescription of Laidleria gracilis Kitching (1975), a temnospondyl from the Cynognathus Zone of South Africa". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 122 (1–2): 167–185. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb02528.x.
- ↑ Graciela Piñeiro, Claudia Marsicano, and Nora Lorenzo (2007). "A new temnospondyl from the Permo-Triassic Buena Vista Formation of Uruguay". Palaeontology 50 (3): 627–640. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00645.x.
- ↑ http://palaeos.com/vertebrates/temnospondyli/plagiosauroidea.html
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