Georgenthalia

Georgenthalia
Temporal range: Early Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: "Amphibia" (wide sense)
Order: †Temnospondyli
Suborder: †Euskelia
Superfamily: †Dissorophoidea
Family: †Amphibamidae
Genus: †Georgenthalia
Anderson et al., 2008
Species
  • †G. clavinasica Anderson et al., 2008 (type)

Georgenthalia is an extinct genus of dissorophoid temnospondyl from the Lower Permian. It is an amphibamid which lived in what is now the Thuringian Forest of central Germany. It is known from the holotype MNG 11135, a small, complete skull. It was found in the Bromacker locality of the Tambach Formation. It was first named by Jason S. Anderson, Amy C. Henrici, Stuart S. Sumida, Thomas Martens and David S. Berman in 2008 and the type species is Georgenthalia clavinasica.[1]

Phylogeny

Cladogram after Fröbisch and Reisz, 2008:[2]

Amphibamidae 


Georgenthalia

Eoscopus

Plemmyradytes

Platyrhinops

Doleserpeton

Gerobatrachus

Amphibamus

Tersomius

Micropholis

Pasawioops





References

  1. ↑ Jason S. Anderson, Amy C. Henrici, Stuart S. Sumida, Thomas Martens, and David S. Berman (2008). "Georgenthalia clavinasica, A New Genus and Species of Dissorophoid Temnospondyl from the Early Permian of Germany, and the Relationships of the Family Amphibamidae". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 (1): 61–75. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2008)28[61:GCANGA]2.0.CO;2.
  2. ↑ Fröbisch, N.B.; Reisz, R.R. (2008). "A new Lower Permian amphibamid (Dissorophoidea, Temnospondyli) from the fissure fill deposits near Richards Spur, Oklahoma". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 (4): 1015–1030. doi:10.1671/0272-4634-28.4.1015.