Melosaurus kamaensis Gubin 1991 (tetrapod)

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 platyrhinus, Melosaurus uralensis

Type specimen: PIN 683/1, a skull. Its type locality is Mamadysh, PIN 683, which is in an Ufimian/Kazanian terrestrial horizon in the Belebey Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at Mamadysh, PIN 683

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