Microposaurus information

Microposaurus; Temporal range: Middle-Late Triassic, 247–242 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Holotype skull of M. averyi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Suborder:	†Stereospondyli
Family:	†Trematosauridae
Subfamily:	†Trematosaurinae
Genus:	†Microposaurus; Haughton, 1925
Type species
	†Microposaurus casei; Haughton, 1925
Other species
	†M. averyi ; Warren, 2012;

Microposaurus (meaning "small eyed lizard"; from Greek μικρός, "small" + ὤψ, "face" or "eye" + σαῦρος, "lizard") is an extinct genus of trematosaurid temnospondyl. Fossils are known from the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone of the Beaufort Group (part of the Karoo Supergroup) in South Africa and the Rouse Hill Siltstone of Australia that date back to the Anisian stage of the Middle Triassic.^[1]^[2] These aquatic creatures were the short snouted lineage from Trematosaurinae.^[1]

^ ^a ^b Damiani, Ross (2004). "Cranial anatomy and relationships of Microposaurus casei, a temnospondyl from the Middle Triassic of South Africa". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 24 (3): 533–41. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2004)024[0533:caarom]2.0.co;2.
^ Warren, Anne (2012). "The South African stereospondyl Microposaurus from the Middle Triassic of the Sydney Basin, Australia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (3): 538–44. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.658934. S2CID 128842227.

[:0-1] Damiani, Ross (2004). "Cranial anatomy and relationships of Microposaurus casei, a temnospondyl from the Middle Triassic of South Africa". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 24 (3): 533–41. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2004)024[0533:caarom]2.0.co;2.

[:1-2] Warren, Anne (2012). "The South African stereospondyl Microposaurus from the Middle Triassic of the Sydney Basin, Australia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (3): 538–44. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.658934. S2CID 128842227.

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Chigutisauridae

Trematosauria

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Metoposauridae

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Latiscopidae

Cynognathus Assemblage Zone

Stereospondyli

Peltobatrachus

Antarctosuchus

Cyclotosaurus

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Plagiosauroidea

Trematosauridae

Tatrasuchus

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Paracyclotosaurus

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Microposaurus Temporal range: Middle-Late Triassic, 247–242 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓

Holotype skull of M. averyi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Suborder:	†Stereospondyli
Family:	†Trematosauridae
Subfamily:	†Trematosaurinae
Genus:	†Microposaurus Haughton, 1925
Type species
†Microposaurus casei Haughton, 1925
Other species
†M. averyi Warren, 2012