Crossotelos

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Crossotelos
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Clade: Tetrapodomorpha
Order: Nectridea
Family: Urocordylidae
Subfamily: Sauropleurinae
Genus: Crossotelos
Case, 1911

Crossotelos is an extinct genus of nectridean tetrapodomorphs within the family Urocordylidae. It contains a single species, Crossotelos annulatus.[1][2]

Crossotelos lived in modern-day Oklahoma and Texas, United States during the Early Permian.[3]

References

  1. ^ Berman, David S. (1970). Vertebrate fossils from the Lueders Formation: Lower Permian of north-central Texas. University of California Press. p. 28. ISBN 9780520091900.
  2. ^ Frost, Darrel R.; Palmeirim, Jorge M.; Etheridge, Richard (1989). Bats of Portugal: Zoogeography and Systematics. Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas. p. 5. ISBN 9780893380335.
  3. ^ Carlson, Keith J. (1999). "Crossotelos, an Early Permian Nectridean Amphibian". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 19 (4): 623–631. Bibcode:1999JVPal..19..623C. doi:10.1080/02724634.1999.10011176. JSTOR 4524033.