Ecolsonia

Ecolsonia
Ecolsonia skull
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Temnospondyli
Family: Trematopidae
Genus: Ecolsonia
Vaughn, 1969

Ecolsonia is an extinct genus of trematopid temnospondyl. Its phylogenetic position within Olsoniformes has been historically debated,[1][2] but it is presently considered to be a trematopid.[3][4]

  1. ^ Vaughn, Peter P. (1969). "Further evidence of close relationship of the trematopsid and dissorophid labyrinthodont amphibians with a description of a new genus and new species". Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. 68: 121–130.
  2. ^ Berman, David S.; Reisz, Robert R.; Eberth, David A. (1985). "Ecolsonia cutlerensis, an early Permian dissorophid amphibian from the Cutler Formation of north-central New Mexico". New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Minerals Research Circular. 191: 1–31.
  3. ^ Polley, B.P.; Reisz, R.R. (2011). "A new Lower Permian trematopid (Temnospondyli: Dissorophoidea) from Richards Spur, Oklahoma". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (4): 789–815. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00668.x. hdl:1807/18982.
  4. ^ Schoch, Rainer R.; Milner, Andrew R. (2014). Sues, Hans-Dieter (ed.). Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie Part 3A2. Temnospondyli I. Stuttgart: Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil. ISBN 9783931516260. OCLC 580976.