Acanthostomatops
Sign in to saveAcanthostomatops is an extinct genus of zatracheidid temnospondyl from the Lower Permian Döhlen Basin of Saxony.
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It sits within the topics Cisuralian temnospondyls, Fossils of Germany and Fossil taxa described in 1883.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Zatrachydidae
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- Acanthostomatops vorax.jpg
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Acanthostomatops is an extinct genus of zatracheidid temnospondyl from the Lower Permian Döhlen Basin of Saxony.
== History of study == Acanthostomatops was originally named as the type species Acanthostoma vorax, in 1883. However, the genus name Acanthostoma was previously used for a polychaete worm back in 1813, and the present name was given in 1961. Detailed descriptions of the taxon were given by Steen & Brough (1937), with an emphasis on the ontogeny of the taxon based on the large sample size given by Boy (1989) and Witzmann & Schoch (2006). Werneburg (1998) described a larval specimen of A. vorax, but this was later proven to be a specimen of the micromelerpetid Branchierpeton amblystomum.
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