Chigutisauridae
| Chigutisauridae Temporal range:
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| Pelorocephalus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
| Superfamily: | †Brachyopoidea |
| Family: | †Chigutisauridae Rusconi, 1949 |
Chigutisauridae is an extinct family of large temnospondyl amphibians. The only genera recognized as belonging to Chigutisauridae at the current time are all from Gondwana (Australia, Argentina, India and South Africa) and include Koolasuchus and Siderops.
List of genera
- Compsocerops
- Keratobrachyops (placement uncertain)
- Koolasuchus
- Kuttycephalus
- Pelorocephalus
- Siderops
References
- Sengupta, D.P. 1995. Chigutisaurid temnspondyls from the Late Triassic of India and a review of the family Chigutisauridae. Palaeontology 38: 19-59.
- Sengupta, D.P. 2003. Triassic temnospondyls of the Pranhita-Godavari Basin, India. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 21: 655-662.
External links
Categories:
- Chigutisaurids
- Triassic temnospondyls
- Jurassic temnospondyls
- Cretaceous temnospondyls
- Amphibian families
- Early Triassic first appearances
- Olenekian taxonomic families
- Anisian taxonomic families
- Ladinian taxonomic families
- Carnian taxonomic families
- Norian taxonomic families
- Rhaetian taxonomic families
- Hettangian taxonomic families
- Sinemurian taxonomic families
- Pliensbachian taxonomic families
- Toarcian taxonomic families
- Aalenian taxonomic families
- Bajocian taxonomic families
- Bathonian taxonomic families
- Callovian taxonomic families
- Oxfordian taxonomic families
- Kimmeridgian taxonomic families
- Tithonian taxonomic families
- Berriasian taxonomic families
- Early Cretaceous extinctions