Kashmirosaurus

Kashmirosaurus; Temporal range: Late Carboniferous or Early Permian
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Family:	†Archegosauridae
Subfamily:	†Melosaurinae
Genus:	†Kashmirosaurus; Werneburg and Schneider, 1996
Type species
	†Kashmirosaurus ornatus; (Woodward, 1905 [originally Archegosaurus ornatus])
Synonyms
	Archegosaurus kashmiriensis Tewari, 1960;

Kashmirosaurus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian known from Permo-Carboniferous deposits in the region of Kashmir.^[1] It was originally named by English paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward in 1905 as a species of Archegosaurus called Archegosaurus ornatus. More recently, the species has been recognized as being distinct from Archegosaurus, and it was placed in its own genus Kashmirosaurus in 1996. An additional species of Archegosaurus, A. kashmiriensis, was named in 1960 from the same deposits in Kashmir, and is now considered synonymous with Kashmirosaurus ornatus.^[2]

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram modified from Ruta et al. (2007) showing the relationship of Kashmirosaurus to other archegosauroids:^[3]

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

^ Milner, A.S. (1978). "A reappraisal of the Early Permian amphibians Memonomemos dyscriton and Cricotillus brachydens" (PDF). Palaeontology. 21 (3): 667–686.
^ Witzmann, F. (2007). "Cranial morphology and ontogeny of the Permo-Carboniferous temnospondyl Archegosaurus decheni Goldfuss, 1847 from the Saar–Nahe Basin, Germany". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences. 96 (2). doi:10.1017/S0263593300001279.
^ 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 2293949. PMID 17925278.