Isodectes (original) (raw)
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Extinct genus of amphibians
| _Isodectes_Temporal range: Early Permian | |
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| Restoration of Isodectes obtusus | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Suborder: | †Dvinosauria |
| Family: | †Eobrachyopidae |
| Genus: | †IsodectesCope, 1896 |
| Type species | |
| †_Isodectes obtusus_(Cope, 1896 [originally _Dendrerpeton obtusus_]) | |
| Synonyms | |
| Saurerpeton Moodie, 1909 |
Isodectes is an extinct genus of dvinosaurian temnospondyl within the family Eobrachyopidae. The genus Saurerpeton, named in 1909, is considered to be a junior synonym of Isodectes.[1]
- ^ Sequeira, S. E. K. (1998). "The cranial morphology and taxonomy of the saurerpetontid Isodectes obtusus comb. Nov. (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the Lower Permian of Texas". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 122: 237–259. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb02531.x.