Blinasaurus

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Blinasaurus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Tetrapoda
Order:† Temnospondyli
Suborder:† Stereospondyli
Family:† Brachyopidae
Genus:† Blinasaurus
Cosgriff, 1969

Blinasaurus is a name of an extinct genus of prehistoric brachyopid found in Triassic geological formations of Australia. The type species is Platyceps wilkinsonii Stephens, 1887. [1] The genus was established by John W. Cosgriff in 1969 to incorporate the type, discovered in New South Wales, and the author's new fossil species, Blinasaurus henwoodi , describing type material found in Blina Shale in the Kimberley region of northwest Australia. [2]

The genus was represented by three species, [3] however, the type species (Platyceps wilkinsonii Stephens, 1887) was assigned to a new monotypic genus as Platycepsion wilkinsoni . A species described by Cosgriff in the same study was placed in a new combination as Batrachosuchus henwoodi . [4]

References

  1. ↑ Stephens, W.J. (1887). "On some additional labyrinthodont fossils from the Hawkesbury sandstones of New South Wales. (Platyceps Wilkinsonii, and two unnamed specimens.)". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 1: 1175–1192.
  2. ↑ Cosgriff, J.W. (1969). "Blinasaurus, a brachyopid genus from Western Australia and New South Wales". Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia. 52 (3). The Society: 65–90.
  3. ↑ Vickers-Rich, P. (1991). Vertebrate palaeontology of Australasia /. Melbourne: Monash University Publications. p.  576. ISBN   9780909674366.
  4. ↑ Warren, Anne; Marsicano, Claudia (17 April 2000). "Banksiops, a replacement name for Banksia townrowi (Amphibia, Temnospondyli)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 20 (1): 186. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0186:BARNFB]2.0.CO;2.


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