Platyrhinops

<i>Platyrhinops</i>

Platyrhinops

Extinct genus of amphibians

Platyrhinops is an extinct genus amphibamid temnospondyl from the Late Carboniferous (late Westphalian stage) of Ohio and the Czech Republic. It is known from many partial skeletons from the Linton site in Saline Township, Ohio[1][2] and at least 6 partial specimens from the Nýřany site from the Nýřany Member of the Kladno Formation in the Czech Republic.[3]

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  1. [1]
    Robert W. Hook and Donald Baird (March 1988). "An Overview of the Upper Carboniferous Fossil Deposit at Linton, Ohio". The Ohio Journal of Science. 88 (1): 55–60. hdl:1811/23240.
  2. [2]
    Jenny A. Clack, and Andrew R. Milner (1992). "Morphology and systematics of the Pennsylvanian amphibian Platyrhinops lyelli (Amphibia: Temnospondyli)". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 100 (3): 275–295.
  3. [3]
    Andrew R. Milner and Sandra E.K. Sequeira (2003). "Revision of the amphibian genus Limnerpeton (Temnospondyli) from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 48 (1): 123–141.


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