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Callistomordax

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Callistomordax
Temporal range: Middle Triassic, Ladinian
Fossil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Stereospondyli
Superfamily: Metoposauroidea
Genus: Callistomordax
Schoch, 2008
Type species
Callistomordax kugleri
Schoch, 2008

Callistomordax is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Middle Triassic of Germany. The type and only species, Callistomordax, was named in 2008. It is known from several well-preserved skeletons found in the Erfurt Formation, part of the Lower Keuper, which dates back to the late Ladinian stage.[1]

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram from Schoch (2008):

Stereospondyli

References

  1. ^ Schoch, R. R. (2008). "A new stereospondyl from the German Middle Triassic, and the origin of the Metoposauridae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 152: 79–11. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00363.x.