Acheloma

Acheloma
Temporal range: Early Permian, 272.5.0–279.5Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: †Temnospondyli
Family: Trematopidae
Genus: Acheloma
Species
  • A. cumminsi Cope, 1882
  • A. dunni Polley & Reisz, 2011
Synonyms

Trematops milleri Williston, 1909

Skeleton

Acheloma (also known as Trematops milleri) is an extinct genus of temnospondyl that lived during the Early Permian.[1][2] The type species is A. cumminsi. Trematops milleri has been synonymized with Acheloma. Like other trematopids, Acheloma was a large terrestrial carnivore. One species, A. dunni, may have been the top predator of the diverse Richards Spur assemblage in Oklahoma. The following cladogram shows the phylogenetic position of Acheloma, from Polley & Reisz, 2011.[3]

Dissorophoidea 

Sclerocephalus haeuseri

Micromelerpeton credneri

Micropholis stowi

Eoscopus lockardi


 Olsoniformes 

Cacops morrisi


 Trematopidae 

Phonerpeton pricei
 Acheloma 

Acheloma cumminsi

Acheloma dunni

Actiobates peabodyi

Ecolsonia cutlerensis

Anconastes vesperus

Tambachia trogallas











References

  1. ↑ "The Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 6 January 2010.
  2. ↑ Dilkes, David William; Robert Reisz (December 30, 1987), "Trematops milleri identified as a junior synonym of Acheloma cumminsi with a revision of the genus", American Museum novitates (American Museum of Natural History) (2902)
  3. ↑ Polley, B.P.; and Reisz, R.R. (2011). "A new Lower Permian trematopid (Temnospondyli: Dissorophoidea) from Richards Spur, Oklahoma". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161 (4): 789–815. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00668.x.