Melosaurinae

Melosaurinae
Temporal range: Middle - Late Permian
Restoration of Melosaurus platyrhinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Temnospondyli
Family: Archegosauridae
Subfamily: Melosaurinae
Subgroups

See text.

Melosaurinae is an extinct subfamily of temnospondyl amphibians, part of the family Archegosauridae. Most melosaurines are known from Russia, although an unnamed species has been found in Brazil.[1] Unlike the long-skulled archegosaurids of the family Platyoposaurinae, melosaurines have shorter, broadened snouts.

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram modified from Ruta et al. (2007):[2]

Archegosauroidea 


Sclerocephalus haeuseri



Syndyodosuchus tetricus






Cheliderpeton vrayni




Cheliderpeton latirostre



Intasuchus silvicola





Melosaurinae


Konzhukovia vetusta



Tryphosuchus paucidens





Koinia silantjevi




Melosaurus uralensis



Uralosuchus tverdochlebovae







Archegosaurus dyscriton




Archegosaurus decheni





Collidosuchus tchudinovi



Kashmirosaurus ornatus





Australerpeton cosgriffi




Bashkirosaurus cherdyncevi




Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi



Prionosuchus plummeri











References

  1. Dias-Da-Silva, S. R. (2012). "Middle-Late Permian tetrapods from the Rio do Rasto Formation, Southern Brazil: A biostratigraphic reassessment". Lethaia. 45: 109–120. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2011.00263.x.
  2. Ruta, Marcello; Pisani, Davide; Lloyd, Graeme T; Benton, Michael J (2007). "A supertree of Temnospondyli: Cladogenetic patterns in the most species-rich group of early tetrapods". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 274 (1629): 3087–3095. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1250. PMC 2293949Freely accessible. PMID 17925278.


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