Brachyopidae
Sign in to saveBrachyopidae is an extinct family of temnospondyls. They evolved in the early Mesozoic and were mostly aquatic. A fragmentary find from Lesotho, Africa is estimated to have been long, the largest amphibian ever known to have lived besides Prionosuchus and Mastodonsaurus. Brachyopids were the only group of temnospondyls to survive into the Jurassic aside from their sister family Chigutisauridae; there are records of brachyopids from the Jurassic of Asia.
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- Parent taxon
- Trematosauria
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- Trematosauria
- taxon name
- Brachyopidae
- taxon rank
- family
- temporal range start
- Early Triassic
- temporal range end
- Middle Jurassic
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Brachyopidae is an extinct family of temnospondyls. They evolved in the early Mesozoic and were mostly aquatic. A fragmentary find from Lesotho, Africa is estimated to have been long, the largest amphibian ever known to have lived besides Prionosuchus and Mastodonsaurus. Brachyopids were the only group of temnospondyls to survive into the Jurassic aside from their sister family Chigutisauridae; there are records of brachyopids from the Jurassic of Asia.
==List of genera== Banksiops Bathignathus Batrachosaurus Batrachosuchoides Batrachosuchus Brachyops Gobiops Notobrachyops ?Pachygonia Platycepsion Sinobrachyops Vanastega Vigilius Xenobrachyops
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