Brachystelechidae

Brachystelechidae
Temporal range: Early Permian
Batropetes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Microsauria
Clade: †Chthonosauria
Family: †Brachystelechidae

Brachystelechidae is an extinct family of Early Permian microsaurs. The family was first named by Robert L. Carroll and Pamela Gaskill in 1978, with the only member being Brachystelechus fritschi.[1] Brachystelechus fritschi has since been reassigned to the genus Batropetes.[2] Genera assigned to the family include: Batropetes, from Germany;[1] Carrolla, from Texas;[3] Quasicaecilia, also from Texas;[4] Diabloroter, from the Mazon Creek lagerstätte of Illinois;[5] and Bromerpeton from the Tambach Formation of Germany.[6]

  1. ^ a b Carroll, R. L.; Gaskill, P. (1978). The Order Microsauria. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 126. DIANE Publishing. pp. 1–211. ISBN 9780871691262.
  2. ^ Carroll, R. L. (1991). "Batropetes from the Lower Permian of Europe- a microsaur, not a reptile". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 11 (2): 229–242. Bibcode:1991JVPal..11..229C. doi:10.1080/02724634.1991.10011390.
  3. ^ Langston, W. Jr.; Olson, E. C. (1986). "Carrolla craddocki, a new genus and species of microsaur from the Lower Permian of Texas". Pearce-Sellards Series, Texas Memorial Museum. 43: 1–20.
  4. ^ Carroll, R. L. (1990). "A tiny microsaur: size constraints in Palaeozoic tetrapods". Palaeontology. 33: 1–17.
  5. ^ Mann, Arjan; Maddin, Hillary C (2019-09-30). "Diabloroter bolti, a short-bodied recumbirostran 'microsaur' from the Francis Creek Shale, Mazon Creek, Illinois". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 187 (2): 494–505. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz025. ISSN 0024-4082.
  6. ^ MacDougall, Mark J.; Jannel, Andréas; Henrici, Amy C.; Berman, David S.; Sumida, Stuart S.; Martens, Thomas; Fröbisch, Nadia B.; Fröbisch, Jörg (2024-02-20). "A new recumbirostran 'microsaur' from the lower Permian Bromacker locality, Thuringia, Germany, and its fossorial adaptations". Scientific Reports. 14 (1): 4200. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-46581-3. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 10879142.