Isodectes Temporal range: Early Permian
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Restoration of Isodectes obtusus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Temnospondyli |
Suborder: | †Dvinosauria |
Family: | †Eobrachyopidae |
Genus: | †Isodectes Cope, 1896 |
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†Isodectes obtusus (Cope, 1896 [originally Dendrerpeton obtusus])
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Isodectes is an extinct genus of dvinosaurian temnospondyl within the family Eobrachyopidae. The genus Saurerpeton, named in 1909, is considered to be a junior synonym of Isodectes.[1]
References
- ^ Sequeira, S. E. K. (1998). "The cranial morphology and taxonomy of the saurerpetontid Isodectes obtusus comb. Nov. (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the Lower Permian of Texas". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 122: 237–259. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb02531.x.