- large,
approximately 1.5
metres (4.9 ft) long and
could reach 3 m long.
Metoposaurids can be
distinguished from the very
similar mastodonsauroids by the position...
-
American Southwest.
Anaschisma was
erected by
Branson (1905) from two
metoposaurid skulls from the Popo Agie
Formation (Carnian) of Wyoming. The generic...
-
Apachesaurus is an
extinct genus of
metoposaurid temnospondyls from
western North America.
Apachesaurus was
described from the Late Tri****ic (late Norian-Rhaetian)...
- life, most
metoposaurids appear to have been
terrestrial in
their juvenile stage. Like
other Mesozoic temnospondyls,
adult metoposaurids were adapted...
- (3): 535–546. Gee, B. M.; Jasinski, S. E. (2021). "Description of the
metoposaurid Anaschisma browni from the New
Oxford Formation of Pennsylvania". Journal...
- G. (1993). "Taxonomy and
Stratigraphic Distribution of Late Tri****ic
Metoposaurid Amphibians from
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona".
Journal of...
-
species is
Dictyocephalus elegans. This
taxon was one of the
first metoposaurids to be
discovered in
North America,
being discovered by
Ebeneezer Emmons...
-
close their extinctions were to the end of the Tri****ic. The last
known metoposaurids ("Apachesaurus") were from the
Redonda Formation,
which may have been...
- some degree, the ichthyosaurs,
confirming the
aquatic mode of life.
Metoposaurids are
known from the
early Late Tri****ic (Carnian)
Keuper of
Germany and...
- (Pseudopalatus).
Small metoposaurid amphibians,
sometimes identified as "Apachesaurus gregorii",
frequent the area
alongside larger metoposaurids.
Various fish...
