Platyrhinops

Platyrhinops
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous, 307.1–305 Ma
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Holotype of platyrhinops lyelli with bones outlined in white
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Temnospondyli
Clade: †Amphibamiformes
Genus: †Platyrhinops
Steen, 1931
Species:
†P. lyelli
Binomial name
†Platyrhinops lyelli
Wyman, 1858 (as Raniceps lyelli)
Synonyms

Raniceps lyelli Wyman, 1858 [preoccupied]
Pelion lyelli Wyman in Cope, 1868
Tuditanus mordax Cope, 1874
Pelion lyellii Cope, 1875
Ichthycanthus platypus Cope, 1877
Eryops platypus Cope, 1888
Diceratosaurus punctolineatus Moodie, 1909
?Leptophractus lancifer Romer, 1930
Platyrhinops mordax Steen, 1931
Amphibamus lyelli Bolt, 1979

Platyrhinops is an extinct genus amphibamid temnospondyl from the Late Carboniferous (late Westphalian stage) of Ohio and the Czech Republic. It is known from many partial skeletons from the Linton site in Saline Township, Ohio[1][2] and at least 6 partial specimens from the Nýřany site from the Nýřany Member of the Kladno Formation in the Czech Republic.[3]

  1. ^ Robert W. Hook and Donald Baird (March 1988). "An Overview of the Upper Carboniferous Fossil Deposit at Linton, Ohio". The Ohio Journal of Science. 88 (1): 55–60. hdl:1811/23240.
  2. ^ Jenny A. Clack, and Andrew R. Milner (1992). "Morphology and systematics of the Pennsylvanian amphibian Platyrhinops lyelli (Amphibia: Temnospondyli)". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 100 (3): 275–295.
  3. ^ Andrew R. Milner and Sandra E.K. Sequeira (2003). "Revision of the amphibian genus Limnerpeton (Temnospondyli) from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 48 (1): 123–141.