Platyoposaurus
{{Short description|Genus of amphibians}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = Middle Permian
| image = Представитель пермской фауны. Палеонтологический музей. Москва. Июнь 2014 - panoramio.jpg
| image_caption = Reconstructed skeleton of P. stuckenbergi
| taxon = Platyoposaurus
| authority = Lydekker, 1889
| type_species = Platyops rickardi
| type_species_authority = Twelvetrees, 1880
| subdivision_ranks = Other species
| subdivision = *P. stuckenbergi
- P. watsoni
}}
Platyoposaurus was a temnospondyl from the Middle Permian epoch about 270-268 Mya.Rich, Pat Vickers, and Thomas H. V. Rich, The Great Russian Dinosaurs, Guntar Graphics, 1993, p. 31 {{ISBN|0-7326-0503-2}}
Discovery
File:Platyoposaurus_watsoni_1DB.jpg
One of the discoveries includes a skull 28 cm long with a purported body length of 250 cm representing a carnivorous adult specimen.{{cite web |url=http://www.palaeos.com/Paleozoic/Permian/Roadian.html |title=Palaeos Paleozoic: Permian: The Roadian Age |access-date=2007-12-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071103083501/http://www.palaeos.com/Paleozoic/Permian/Roadian.html |archive-date=2007-11-03 }} Accessed 2007/12/16
The fossil remains were found in Belebey in Bashkortostan, Russia; the name Platyoposaurus means "flat-faced lizard" and was coined after the original name Platyops turned out to be preoccupied.Rich, Pat Vickers, and Thomas H. V. Rich, The Great Russian Dinosaurs, Guntar Graphics, 1993, p. 31 {{ISBN|0-7326-0503-2}}
References
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Category:Permian temnospondyls
Category:Prehistoric amphibian genera
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