Uralosuchus

Uralosuchus
Temporal range: Late Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: "Amphibia" (wide sense)
Order: Temnospondyli
Family: Archegosauridae
Subfamily: Melosaurinae
Genus: Uralosuchus
Gubin, 1993
Type species
Uralosuchus tverdochlebovae
Gubin, 1993

Uralosuchus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Late Permian of Russia, belonging to the group Archegosauroidea. It is a member of the archegosauroidean subfamily Melosaurinae. Fossils have been found in Orenburg Oblast. Uralosuchus was named in 1993 with the description of the type species U. tverdochlebovae.[1]

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram modified from Ruta et al. (2007) showing the relationship of Uralosuchus to other archegosauroids:[2]

Archegosauroidea 


Sclerocephalus haeuseri



Syndyodosuchus tetricus






Cheliderpeton vrayni




Cheliderpeton latirostre



Intasuchus silvicola





Melosaurinae


Konzhukovia vetusta



Tryphosuchus paucidens





Koinia silantjevi




Melosaurus uralensis



Uralosuchus tverdochlebovae







Archegosaurus dyscriton




Archegosaurus decheni





Collidosuchus tchudinovi



Kashmirosaurus ornatus





Australerpeton cosgriffi




Bashkirosaurus cherdyncevi




Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi



Prionosuchus plummeri











References

  1. Shishkin, M.A.; Novikov, I.V.; Gubin, Y.M. (2003). "Permian and Triassic temnospondyls from Russia". In Benton, M.J.; Shishkin, M.A.; and Unwin, D.M. The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 35–59.
  2. Ruta, Marcello; Pisani, Davide; Lloyd, Graeme T; Benton, Michael J (2007). "A supertree of Temnospondyli: Cladogenetic patterns in the most species-rich group of early tetrapods". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274 (1629): 3087–3095. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1250. PMC 2293949. PMID 17925278.