Anconastes is an extinct genus of dissorophoid temnospondyl within the family Trematopidae. It is known from two specimens from the Late Carboniferous Cutler Formation of north-central New Mexico in the southwestern United States.[1] The genus name derives from two Greek roots, ankos ("mountain glen or valley") and nastes ("inhabitant"), which refers to the type locality of El Cobre Canyon where the specimens were found. The specific name is derived from the Latin word vesperus ("western"). The more complete specimen, the holotype, is a partial skull with articulated mandibles and a substantial amount of the postcranial skeleton. The less complete specimen, the paratype, consists only of the right margin of the skull with an articulated mandible.
^Berman, David S.; Reisz, Robert R.; Eberth, David A. (1987). "A new genus and species of trematopid amphibian from the Late Pennsylvanian of north-central New Mexico". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 7 (3): 252–269. doi:10.1080/02724634.1987.10011659.
Anconastes is an extinct genus of dissorophoid temnospondyl within the family Trematopidae. It is known from two specimens from the Late Carboniferous...
amphibamiform dissorophoid. In 1987, the second trematopid from New Mexico, Anconastes vesperus, named for its discovery in El Cobre Canyon in western North...
tusks. Based on small bony elements present in the related trematopid Anconastes, Fedexia likely had a granular skin texture formed by bony protuberances...
as the sister taxon of the clade containing Tambachia and Anconastes. Tambachia, Anconastes, and Fedexia all possess a shallow and broadly concave occipital...
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