Archegosauridae

Archegosauridae; Temporal range: Early Permian-Late Permian 297–252 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Archegosaurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Superfamily:	†Archegosauroidea
Family:	†Archegosauridae; Lydekker, 1885
Genera
	Platyoposaurinae Archegosaurus; Bageherpeton; Bashkirosaurus; Collidosuchus; Kashmirosaurus; Platyoposaurus; Prionosuchus; Melosaurinae Koinia; Konzhukovia; Melosaurus; Tryphosuchus; Uralosuchus;

Archegosauridae is a family of relatively large and long snouted temnospondyls that lived in the Permian period. They were fully aquatic animals, and were metabolically and physiologically more similar to fish than modern amphibians.[1]

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References

Florian Witzmann; Elizabeth Brainerd (2017). "Modeling the physiology of the aquatic temnospondyl Archegosaurus decheni from the early Permian of Germany". Fossil Record. 20 (2): 105–127. doi:10.5194/fr-20-105-2017.

Ruta, M., Pisani, D., Lloyd, G. T. and Benton, M. 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: 3087–3095.

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[1] Florian Witzmann; Elizabeth Brainerd (2017). "Modeling the physiology of the aquatic temnospondyl Archegosaurus decheni from the early Permian of Germany". Fossil Record. 20 (2): 105–127. doi:10.5194/fr-20-105-2017.