Eupelor
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
| Family: | †Metoposauridae |
| Genus: | †Eupelor Cope, 1868 |
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| †Mastodonsaurus durus Cope, 1866
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Eupelor is a dubious genus of prehistoric amphibian belonging to the temnospondyl family Metoposauridae. Fossils have been found in present-day Pennsylvania dating to the late Triassic.
Taxonomy
The Eupelor type species, E. durus, was named Mastodonsaurus durus by Edward Drinker Cope in 1866 on the basis of AMNH 3927, a number of clavicles, from the Lockatong Formation of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.[1] In 1868 Cope allocated the species to its own genus, Eupelor, based on differences from Metoposaurus (then known as Metopias).[2]
Colbert and Imbrie (1956) reviewed all Triassic metoposaurids and concluded that Eupelor should be used for all metoposaurids from North America, especially Koskinonodon. The authors considered the trematosaur Calamops a possible synonym of Eupelor.[3] Later, Chowdbury (1965) subsumed Eupelor into Metoposaurus along with other North American metoposaurids.[4] Hunt (1993), however, treated Eupelor as a dubious genus of metoposaurid due to its non-diagnostic nature.[5]
References
- ^ Cope, E. D. (1866). "A few observations on some of the extinct vertebrates of the Mesozoic Red Sandstone". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 18: 249-250.
- ^ Cope, E. D. (1868). "Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia of North America". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 1868: 208-221.
- ^ Colbert, E. H. and Imbrie, J. (1956). "Triassic metoposaurid amphibians". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 110: 403–452.
- ^ Chowdhury, T. R. (1965). "A new metoposauroid amphibian from the Upper Triassic Maleri Formation of Central India". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B. 250: 1–52.
- ^ Hunt, A. P. (1993). "Revision of the Metoposauridae (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) and description of a new genus from Western North America". In: M. Morales (ed.) "Aspects of Mesozoic Geology and Paleontology of the Colorado Plateau". Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin. 59: 67–97.
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