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Iratusaurus

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Iratusaurus
Temporal range: Middle Permian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Temnospondyli
Family: Dissorophidae
Genus: Iratusaurus
Gubin, 1980

Iratusaurus is an extinct genus of dissorophoid temnospondyl within the family Dissorophidae.[1] It was described by Gubin (1980) on the basis of a fragmentary posterior skull.[2] It is estimated to have been comparably large to Kamacops, another Russian dissorophid, but little more can be said about it, and it is rarely mentioned in comparative descriptions and has never been tested in a phylogenetic analysis. Distinguishing features include a large, triangular otic notch and a median crest on the postparietals.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Schoch, Rainer, R.; Milner, Andrew, R. (2014). Sues, Hans-Dieter (ed.). Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie Part 3A2. Temnospondyl I. Stuttgart: Dr. Friedrich Pfeil Verlag. ISBN 9783931516260. OCLC 580976.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Gubin, Yuri (1980). "New Permian dissorophids of the Ural forelands". Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal. 1980: 82–90.