Kashmirosaurus

Kashmirosaurus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian known from Permo-Carboniferous deposits in the region of Kashmir.[1] It was originally named by English paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward in 1905 as a species of Archegosaurus called Archegosaurus ornatus. More recently, the species has been recognized as being distinct from Archegosaurus, and it was placed in its own genus Kashmirosaurus in 1996. An additional species of Archegosaurus, A. kashmiriensis, was named in 1960 from the same deposits in Kashmir, and is now considered synonymous with Kashmirosaurus ornatus.[2]

Kashmirosaurus
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous or Early Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Temnospondyli
Family: †Archegosauridae
Subfamily: †Melosaurinae
Genus: †Kashmirosaurus
Werneburg and Schneider, 1996
Type species
†Kashmirosaurus ornatus
(Woodward, 1905 [originally Archegosaurus ornatus])
Synonyms
  • Archegosaurus kashmiriensis Tewari, 1960

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram modified from Ruta et al. (2007) showing the relationship of Kashmirosaurus to other archegosauroids:[3]

Archegosauroidea 
 
 

Sclerocephalus haeuseri

 
 

Syndyodosuchus tetricus

 
 
 
 
 

Cheliderpeton vrayni

 
 
 

Cheliderpeton latirostre

 
 

Intasuchus silvicola

 
 
 
 
Melosaurinae
 
 

Konzhukovia vetusta

 
 

Tryphosuchus paucidens

 
 
 
 

Koinia silantjevi

 
 
 

Melosaurus uralensis

 
 

Uralosuchus tverdochlebovae

 
 
 
 
 
 

Archegosaurus dyscriton

 
 
 

Archegosaurus decheni

 
 
 
 

Collidosuchus tchudinovi

 
 

Kashmirosaurus ornatus

 
 
 
 

Australerpeton cosgriffi

 
 
 

Bashkirosaurus cherdyncevi

 
 
 

Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi

 
 

Prionosuchus plummeri

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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References
  1. Milner, A.S. (1978). "A reappraisal of the Early Permian amphibians Memonomemos dyscriton and Cricotillus brachydens" (PDF). Palaeontology. 21 (3): 667–686.
  2. Witzmann, F. (2007). "Cranial morphology and ontogeny of the Permo-Carboniferous temnospondyl Archegosaurus decheni Goldfuss, 1847 from the Saar–Nahe Basin, Germany". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences. 96 (2). doi:10.1017/S0263593300001279.
  3. Ruta, Marcello; Pisani, Davide; Lloyd, Graeme T; Benton, Michael J (2007). "A supertree of Temnospondyli: Cladogenetic patterns in the most species-rich group of early tetrapods". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 274 (1629): 3087–3095. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1250. PMC 2293949. PMID 17925278.


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