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).