†Melosaurus uralensis Meyer 1857 (tetrapod)
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Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Archegosauridae
Belongs to Melosaurus according to R. Schoch and A. R. Milner 2000
See also Golubev 1995 and Shishkin et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Melosaurus compilatus, Melosaurus kamaensis, Melosaurus platyrhinus
Type specimen: MB 334, a skull. Its type locality is Sterlitamak - Melosaurus uralensis site, which is in an Ufimian/Kazanian terrestrial sandstone in the Russian Federation.
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution:
• Permian of the Russian Federation (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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