Isodectes

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Isodectes
Temporal range: Early Permian
Isodectes obtusus.jpg
Restoration of Isodectes obtusus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order:† Temnospondyli
Suborder:† Dvinosauria
Family:† Eobrachyopidae
Genus:† Isodectes
Cope, 1896
Type species
†Isodectes obtusus
(Cope, 1896 [originally Dendrerpeton obtusus])
Synonyms
  • SaurerpetonMoodie, 1909

Isodectes is an extinct genus of dvinosaurian temnospondyl within the family Eobrachyopidae. The genus Saurerpeton, named in 1909, is considered to be a junior synonym of Isodectes. [1]

References

  1. ↑ Sequeira, S. E. K. (1998). "The cranial morphology and taxonomy of the saurerpetontid Isodectes obtusus comb. Nov. (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the Lower Permian of Texas". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 122: 237–259. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb02531.x .


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