Kourerpeton

Kourerpeton
Temporal range: Permian or Early Triassic
Life Restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Order:
†Temnospondyli
Suborder:
†Dvinosauria
Family:
†Kourerpetidae
Genus:
†Kourerpeton

Olson and Lammers, 1976
Species
  • †K. bradyi Olson and Lammers, 1976 (type)

Kourerpeton is an extinct genus of dvinosaurian temnospondyl. Fossils of Kourerpeton were discovered in a window of a barber's shop in either Bisbee or Mesa, Arizona.[1] Kourerpeton was named in 1976, with the type and only species being K. bradyi.[2] It was originally assigned to the monotypic family Kourerpetidae, which has been alternatively spelled Kourerpetontidae.[3][4]

  1. ^ Milner, A. R.; Sequeira, S. E. K. (2004). "Slaugenhopia texensis (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the Permian of Texas is a primitive tupilakosaurid". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 24 (2): 320–325. doi:10.1671/1974.
  2. ^ Olson, E. C.; Lammers, G. E. (1976). "A new brachiopoid amphibian". In C. S. Churcher (ed.). Athlon: Essays on Palaeontology in Honour of Loris Shano Russell. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum. pp. 45–57.
  3. ^ Warren, A. (1981). "A horned member of the labyrinthodont super-family Brachyopoidea from the Early Triassic of Queensland". Alcheringa. 5 (4): 273–288. doi:10.1080/03115518108566995.
  4. ^ Carroll, R. L. (1988). Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company. pp. 1–698. ISBN 0-7167-1822-7.