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Kashmirosaurus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Subfamily
  
†Melosaurinae

Rank
  
Genus

Family
  
†Archegosauridae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Temnospondyli

Similar
  
Collidosuchus, Tryphosuchus, Konzhukovia, Intasuchus, Bageherpeton

Kashmirosaurus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian known from Permo-Carboniferous deposits in the region of Kashmir. 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.

Phylogeny

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

References

Kashmirosaurus Wikipedia