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Koinia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
†Temnospondyli

Subfamily
  
†Melosaurinae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Family
  
†Archegosauridae

Genus
  
†Koinia Gubin, 1993

Koinia is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Late Permian of Russia. It is an archegosauroid in the subfamily Melosaurinae. Koinia was named in 1993 with the description of the type species K. silantjevi, based on fossils that were found near the Vym River in the Komi Republic.

Phylogeny

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

References

Koinia Wikipedia