| Anaschisma Temporal range: Late Triassic,
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| Skeleton of Anaschisma at the AMNH | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
| Family: | †Metoposauridae |
| Genus: | †Anaschisma Branson, 1905 |
| Type species | |
| †Anaschisma browni Branson, 1905
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Anaschisma ("ripped up") is an extinct genus of large temnospondyls. These animals were part of the family called Metoposauridae, which filled the crocodile-like predatory niches in the late Triassic.[1] It had a large skull about 62 centimetres (24 in) long,[2] and possibly reached 3 metres (9.8 ft) long.[3] It was an ambush hunter, snapping up anything small enough to fit in its huge jaws.[3] It was very common during the Late Triassic (Norian age) in what is now the American Southwest.[4]
- ^ Brusatte, Stephen L (2015). "A new species of Metoposaurus from the Late Triassic of Portugal and comments on the systematics and biogeography of metoposaurid temnospondyls". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (3): e912988. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.912988. S2CID 84007744.
- ^ Hunt, Adrian P.; Lucas, Spencer G. (1993). "Taxonomy and stratigraphic distribution of Late Triassic metoposaurid amphibians from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona". Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science. 27 (1): 89–96. JSTOR 40023709.
- ^ a b "Palaeos Vertebrates Temnospondyli: Trematosauria: Metaposaurs". palaeos.com.
- ^ Hunt, A.P. (1989). "Comments on the taxonomy of North American metoposaurids and a preliminary phylogenetic analysis of the family Metoposauridae" (PDF). In Lucas, SG; Hunt, AP (eds.). Dawn of the age of dinosaurs in the American Southwest. Albuquerque: New Mexico Museum of Natural History. pp. 292–300.