Platyoposaurus watsoni Efremov 1933 (tetrapod)

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Archegosauridae

Alternative combination: Platyops watsoni

Belongs to Platyoposaurus according to R. Schoch and A. R. Milner 2000

See also Romer 1947 and Shishkin et al. 2000

Sister taxa: Platyoposaurus rickardi, Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi, Platyoposaurus vjuschkovi

Type specimen: PIN 2250/8, a skull. Its type locality is Shikhovo-Chirki, PIN 161, which is in an Ufimian/Kazanian deltaic limestone in the Pechishchi Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution:

• Permian of the Russian Federation (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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