Madison Children's Museum

Specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of North American metoposaurids: a case for monospecific genera in vertebrate paleontology

The Metoposauridae were a widespread family of aquatic Late Triassic temnospondyl amphibians known from numerous localities in non-marine strata of the Northern Hemisphere, India, and Madagascar. Recent descriptions of intraspecific variation in skulls from hyper accumulations su...