Platyoposaurus

Taxobox
name = Platyoposaurus

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image_caption = Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi
fossil_range = Late Permian
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
superclassis = Tetrapoda
classis = Amphibia
ordo = Temnospondyli
familia = Archegosauridae
genus = Platyoposaurus
genus_authority = Trautschold, 1884
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision ="Platyposaurus struckensbergi

Platyposaurus was a Temnospondyli amphibian from the late Permain period about 255-250 Mya [ Rich, Pat Vickers, and Thomas H. V. Rich, The Great Russian Dinosaurs, Guntar Graphics, 1993, p. 31 ISBN 0 7326 0503 2 ] . One of the discoveries includes a skull 28 cm long with a purported body length of 250 cm representing a carnivorous adult specimen [ http://www.gondwanastudios.com/info/pla.htm Accessed 2007/12/16] , [http://www.palaeos.com/Paleozoic/Permian/Roadian.html Accessed 2007/12/16] .

The fossil remains were found in Belebey, Bashkortostan in Russia, and the name Platyposaurus means "flat faced reptile" [ Rich, Pat Vickers, and Thomas H. V. Rich, The Great Russian Dinosaurs, Guntar Graphics, 1993, p. 31 ISBN 0 7326 0503 2 ] .

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