Aspidosaurus
| Aspidosaurus Temporal range:
Early Permian | |
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| Aspidosaurus Skull | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Family: | †Dissorophidae |
| Genus: | †Aspidosaurus Broili, 1904 |
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Aspidosaurus is an extinct
temnospondyl within the family Dissorophidae
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Description
Like other dissorophids, Aspidosaurus species had a single row of plates formed by expansions of the neural spines.[1]
Taxonomy
In 1911, Paul Miller discovered the remains of various dissorophid bones in
phylogenetic placement.[2]
The genus Alegeinosaurus Case, 1911 was synonymized with Aspidosaurus by Gee (2018) based on a redescription of the holotype.[3]
Phylogeny
Below is a cladogram from Schoch (2012) in which valid Aspidosaurus species are found to be basal dissorophids and "Aspidosaurus" novomexicanus -the Rio Arriba taxon- nests within the subfamily Cacopinae:[2]
| Dissorophoidea |
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References
- ^ a b A Description of Aspidosaurus novomexicanus Williston Permo-Carboniferous Vertebrates from New Mexico, p7-11. Retrieved 2011-09-11.
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- S2CID 89844574.