Micropholis stowi Huxley 1859 (tetrapod)

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Amphibamidae

Synonym: Petrophryne granulata Owen 1876

Full reference: T. H. Huxley. 1859. On some Amphibian and Reptilian Remains from South Africa and Australia. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 15:642-649

Belongs to Micropholis according to R. R. Schoch and B. S. Rubidge 2005

See also Damiani and Rubidge 2003, Haughton 1925, Owen 1876, Schoch 2013 and Watson 1913

Sister taxa: none

Type specimens:

  • Micropholis stowi: BMNH R.4382, a partial skull. Its type locality is Rhenosterberg (Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone), which is in an Induan terrestrial siliciclastic in the Katberg Formation of South Africa.
  • Petrophryne granulata: BMNH R510, a skull. Its type locality is Donnybrook (Queenstown District), which is in an Induan/Olenekian fluvial mudstone in the Katberg Formation of South Africa.

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of Antarctica (1 collection), South Africa (11)

Total: 12 collections including 13 occurrences

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