Xenobrachyops Warren and Hutchinson 1983 (tetrapod)

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Brachyopidae

Full reference: A. A. Warren and M. N. Hutchinson. 1983. The last labyrinthodont? A new brachyopoid (Amphibia, Temnospondyli) from the Early Jurassic Evergreen Formation of Queensland, Australia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 303:1-62

Parent taxon: Brachyopidae according to A. Warren and C. Marsicano 2000

See also Warren and Hutchinson 1983 and Yates and Warren 2000

Sister taxa: Banksiops, Bathignathus, Batrachosuchus, Blinasaurus, Bothriceps, Brachyops, Ferganobatrachus, Gobiops, Notobrachyops, Platycepsion, Sinobrachyops, Vanastega, Vigilius

Subtaxa: Xenobrachyops allos

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Type: Brachyops allos

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at Duckworth Creek, SW of Bluff, QML 215 (Triassic of Australia)

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