Siderops | |
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Holotype skeleton | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Temnospondyli |
Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
Family: | †Chigutisauridae |
Genus: | †Siderops Warren and Hutchinson, 1983 |
Species: | †S. kehli
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Binomial name | |
†Siderops kehli Warren and Hutchinson, 1983 [1]
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Siderops (from the Greek sideros meaning “iron” and -ops meaning “face”) is an extinct genus of chigutisaurid temnospondyl from Early Jurassic of Australia, containing the species S. kehli (named after the Kehl family of ‘Kolane’, Wandoan, Queensland where the fossil was found).