Pneumatostega

Extinct genus of amphibians

Pneumatostega
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Stereospondyli
Family: Rhytidosteidae
Genus: Pneumatostega
Cosgriff & Zawiskie, 1979
Species
  • P. potamia Cosgriff & Zawiskie, 1979 (type)

Pneumatostega is an extinct genus of rhytidosteid temnospondyl from the early Triassic period of Cape Province of South Africa.[1] It is known from the holotype BPI F981, a dorsal mould of a skull roof and from the referred specimen SAM 11188, partial skull fragments and postcranial remains recovered from the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone in the Beaufort Group near Middelburg. This genus was named by J. W. Cosgriff and J. M. Zawiskie in 1979, and the type species is Pneumatostega potamia.[2]

References

  1. ^ Dias-da-Silva, Sérgio; Marsicano, Claudia (2011). "Phylogenetic reappraisal of Rhytidosteidae (Stereospondyli: Trematosauria), temnospondyl amphibians from the Permian and Triassic". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 9 (2): 305–325. doi:10.1080/14772019.2010.492664. hdl:11336/68471. ISSN 1477-2019. S2CID 84569779.
  2. ^ Cosgriff, J. W.; Zawiskie, J. M. (1979). "A new species of the Rhytidosteidae from the Lystrosaurus Zone and a review of the Rhytidosteoidea". Palaeontologia Africana. 22: 1–27.
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Tetrapodomorpha
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Temnospondyli
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Stereospondyli
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Lapillopsidae
Rhinesuchidae
Lydekkerinidae
Capitosauria
Trematosauria
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Uranocentrodon senekalensis

Lydekkerina huxleyi

Paracyclotosaurus davidi
Benthosuchidae
Trematosauridae
Metoposauridae
Rhytidosteidae
Derwentiinae
Chigutisauridae
Brachyopidae
Plagiosauridae
Trematolestes hagdorni

Metoposaurus diagnosticus

Gerrothorax pulcherrimus
Taxon identifiers
Pneumatostega


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