Cosgriffius

<i>Cosgriffius</i>

Cosgriffius

Extinct genus of amphibians

Cosgriffius is an extinct genus of trematosaurian temnospondyl within the family Trematosauridae.[1][2][3] It was described in 1993 by Samuel P. Welles based on a single partial skull from the well-known Meteor Crater Quarry (Early Triassic Moenkopi Formation) in Arizona that also produced more abundant remains of the capitosaur Wellesaurus peabodyi.[4] The skull was long and slender, features typically associated with the trematosaurid subfamily Lonchorhynchinae. This is the only trematosaurid known from western North America.

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  1. [1]
    "Fossilworks: Cosgriffius". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. [2]
    Fortuny, Josep; Gastou, Stéphanie; Escuillié, François; Lovasoa Ranivoharimanana; J.-Sébastien Steyer (2017-06-29). "A new extreme longirostrine temnospondyl from the Triassic of Madagascar: phylogenetic and palaeobiogeographical implications for trematosaurids". Taylor & Francis. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.5155366.v1. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. [3]
    "blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/trematosauroid-temnospondyls/".
  4. [4]
    Welles, Samuel P. (1993). "A review of lonchorhynchine trematosaurs (Labryrinthodontia), and a description of a new genus and species from the lower Moenkopi Formation of Arizona". PaleoBios. 14: 1–24.


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