Melosaurinae

Melosaurinae Temporal range: Middle - Late Permian
Restoration of Melosaurus platyrhinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Family:	†Archegosauridae
Subfamily:	†Melosaurinae
Subgroups
See text.

Melosaurinae is an extinct subfamily of temnospondyl amphibians, part of the family Archegosauridae. Most melosaurines are known from Russia, although an unnamed species has been found in Brazil.^[1] Unlike the long-skulled archegosaurids of the family Platyoposaurinae, melosaurines have shorter, broadened snouts.

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram modified from Ruta et al. (2007):^[2]

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

1. Dias-Da-Silva, S. R. (2012). "Middle-Late Permian tetrapods from the Rio do Rasto Formation, Southern Brazil: A biostratigraphic reassessment". Lethaia. 45: 109–120. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2011.00263.x.
2. 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.