Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Archegosauridae
Alternative combination: Platyops rickardi
Belongs to Platyoposaurus according to R. Schoch and A. R. Milner 2000
See also Romer 1947 and Shishkin et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi, Platyoposaurus vjuschkovi, Platyoposaurus watsoni
Type specimen: a specimen of Rickard's collection (current whereabouts unknown), a skull. Its type locality is Kargalinski Mines, PIN 1954, PIN 48, locality 12 of Tverdokhlebov et al. (2005), which is in an Urzhumian deltaic sandstone/conglomerate in the Amanakskaya Formation of the Russian Federation.
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution: found only at Kargalinski Mines, PIN 1954, PIN 48, locality 12 of Tverdokhlebov et al. (2005)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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