Siderops

Siderops Temporal range: Early Jurassic
Restoration of Siderops kehli
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	"Amphibia" (wide sense)
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Suborder:	†Stereospondyli
Family:	†Chigutisauridae
Genus:	†Siderops

Siderops is an extinct genus of chigutisaurid temnospondyl from Early Jurassic of Australia. Fossil Ramains are founded at Evergreen Formation.It was recently argued that it should be reclassified as a brachyopoid. Siderops was of big size, with a skull up to 50 cm long an a total length of 2.5 m.^[1]

References

• J. Sébastien Steyer; Ross Damiani (2005). "A giant brachyopoid temnospondyl from the Upper Triassic or Lower Jurassic of Lesotho". Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 176 (3): 243–248. doi:10.2113/176.3.243.