Chinlestegophis
| Chinlestegophis Temporal range: Late Triassic,
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| Genus: | †Chinlestegophis Pardo et al., 2017
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| †Chinlestegophis jenkinsi Pardo et al., 2017
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Chinlestegophis, a putative Triassic stereospondyl considered to be related to metoposauroids such as Rileymillerus, is an extinct genus of possible stereospondylian and has been noted to share many features with caecilians, a living group of legless burrowing amphibians. If Chinlestegophis is indeed both an advanced stereospondyl and a relative of caecilians, this means that stereospondyls (in the form of caecilians) survived to the present day.[1] Chinlestegophis jenkinsi, the type and only species, is known only from a single skull discovered in the Chinle Formation in Colorado.
References
- ^ Pardo, Jason D.; Small, Bryan J.; Huttenlocker, Adam K. (2017-07-03). "Stem caecilian from the Triassic of Colorado sheds light on the origins of Lissamphibia". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114 (27): E5389–E5395. doi:10.1073/pnas.1706752114. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 28630337.
