Temporal range: Late Carboniferous – Early Permian, 301–297 Ma
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One of the best preserved fossil skeletons of Sclerocephalus haeuseri
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Order:
†Temnospondyli
Family:
†Sclerocephalidae Jaekel, 1909
Genus:
†Sclerocephalus Goldfuss, 1847
Species
†S. haeuseri Goldfuss, 1847 (type)
†S. bavaricus (Branco, 1887)
?†S. jogischneideri Werneburg, 1992
†S. nobilis (Krätschmer & Resch, 2005)
†S. stambergi Klembara & Steyer, 2012
Synonyms
Genus-level:
Weissia Branco, 1887
Klauswaldia Krätschmer & Resch, 2005
Species-level:
Weissia bavarica Branco, 1887
Klauswaldia nobile Krätschmer & Resch, 2005
Sclerocephalus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the lowermost Permian of Germany and Czech Republic with four valid species, including the type species S. haeuseri. It is one of the most completely preserved and most abundant Palaeozoic tetrapods. Sclerocephalus was once thought to be closely related to eryopoid temnospondyls, but it is now thought to be more closely related to archegosauroids. It is the only genus in the family Sclerocephalidae.
described as Leptorophus levis are the larvae of Sclerocephalus. The most important modern research on Sclerocephalus was published by Boy (1988) and Schoch (2000...
postcranial bones, and an increase in body size. Temnospondyls like Sclerocephalus are known from both large adult specimens and small larvae, showing...
interest is that the similarly large and semi-aquatic stereospondylomorph Sclerocephalus, which is abundantly known from Germany, is unknown from Remigiusberg...
WB (see List of herbaria). He was the first to describe Allochrusa, Sclerocephalus, Jancaea, Prolongoa, Psychrogeton, Heteroderis, Myopordon, Aphanopleura...
Number Institution Taxon Age Unit Country Notes Images N/A Sclerocephalus N/A Sclerocephalus N/A Milnererpeton huberi N/A Apateon kontheri N/A Melanerpeton...
Fröbisch (2023). Werneburg et al. (2023) describe twelve larvae of Sclerocephalus from the Permian (Asselian) Meisenheim Formation (Germany), providing...
taxon would often fall under predation from Paleozoic tetrapods such as Sclerocephalus[citation needed] Paleontology portal Fish portal Prehistoric fish List...
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