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"First basal Temnospondyl"??

I'm deleting the sentance " Paleontologists suggest that along with Nigerpeton, Saharastega is the first basal genus of the Temnospondyli, a group of prehistoric amphibians."

This is not anything that has been suggested by palaeontologists. The Moradi formation is late Permian, and basal temnospondyls have been around since the late Carboniferous, more that 50 million years earlier (see Ruta et al 2007). Looking at the paper cited, I think they may have misunderstood the part where the authors were saying these were the first member of a basal family found outside Europe or America. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.201.100.83 (talk) 11:37, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]