Pneumatostega

<i>Pneumatostega</i>

Pneumatostega

Extinct genus of amphibians

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]

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References

  1. [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. [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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