Eupelor
{{Short description|Genus of temnospondyl amphibian (fossil)}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|fossil_range = Late Triassic, {{fossilrange|221.5|205.6}}
|image = ?Eupelor durus clavicular plate.png
|image_caption = Left clavicular plate of ?Eupelor durus seen from the outer aspect (left) and the inner aspect (right)
|taxon = Eupelor
|authority = Cope, 1868
|type_species = {{extinct}}Eupelor durus
|type_species_authority = Cope, 1868
| synonyms =
- Calamops paludosus? Sinclair, 1917
- Mastodonsaurus durus Cope, 1866
- Metoposaurus (Metopias) durus Cope, 1866
}}
Eupelor is a dubious genus of prehistoric amphibian belonging to the temnospondyl family Metoposauridae.{{Cite journal|last1=Colbert|first1=Edwin Harris|last2=Imbrie|first2=John|date=9 July 1956|title=Triassic metoposaurid amphibians|journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History|volume=110|issue=6|pages=399–452|hdl=2246/431}}{{Cite journal|last1=Chowdhury|first1=T. Roy|last2=Mahalanobis|first2=Prasanta Chandra|date=1965-11-18|title=A new metoposaurid amphibian from the upper Triassic Maleri formation of Central India|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences|volume=250|issue=761|pages=1–52|doi=10.1098/rstb.1965.0019|bibcode=1965RSPTB.250....1C|doi-access=}}{{Cite journal|last=Sulej|first=Tomasz|date=2002|title=Species discrimination of the Late Triassic temnospondyl amphibian Metoposaurus diagnosticus|url=https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app47/app47-535.pdf|journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica|volume=47|issue=3|pages=535–546}} Fossils have been found in present-day Pennsylvania, within the Newark Supergroup, dating to the Late Triassic (Norian).von Huene, F., 1921 - Reptilian and stegocephalian remains from the Triassic of Pennsylvania in the Cope Collection. Bulletin of the AMNH; v. 44, article 19.
Taxonomy
The Eupelor type species, E. durus, was named Mastodonsaurus durus by Edward Drinker Cope in 1866 on the basis of AMNH 3927, a number of clavicles and the tooth AMNH 2333 (which could have belonged to a different temnospondyl apart from Eupelor), from the Lockatong Formation (Phoenixville Tunnel site) of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.Cope, E. D. (1866). "A few observations on some of the extinct vertebrates of the Mesozoic Red Sandstone". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 18: 249-250. In 1868 Cope allocated the species to its own genus, Eupelor, based on differences from Metoposaurus (then known as Metopias).Cope, E. D. (1868). "Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia of North America". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 1868: 208-221.
Colbert and Imbrie (1956) reviewed all Triassic metoposaurids and concluded that Eupelor should be used for all metoposaurids from North America, especially Koskinonodon (now known as Anaschisma). The authors considered the trematosaur Calamops a possible synonym of Eupelor.Colbert, E. H. and Imbrie, J. (1956). "Triassic metoposaurid amphibians". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 110: 403–452. Later, Chowdbury (1965) subsumed Eupelor into Metoposaurus along with other North American metoposaurids.Chowdhury, T. R. (1965). "A new metoposauroid amphibian from the Upper Triassic Maleri Formation of Central India". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B. 250: 1–52. Hunt (1993), however, treated Eupelor as a dubious genus of metoposaurid due to its non-diagnostic nature.Hunt, A. P. (1993). "Revision of the Metoposauridae (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) and description of a new genus from Western North America". In: M. Morales (ed.) "Aspects of Mesozoic Geology and Paleontology of the Colorado Plateau". Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin. 59: 67–97.
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