Siderops

Siderops
Temporal range: Early Jurassic, Late Toarcian
~176.6 Ma
Holotype skeleton
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Stereospondyli
Family: Chigutisauridae
Genus: Siderops
Warren and Hutchinson, 1983
Species:
S. kehli
Binomial name
Siderops kehli
Warren and Hutchinson, 1983

Siderops (from the Greek sideros meaning “iron” and -ops meaning “face”) is an extinct genus of chigutisaurid temnospondyl from Early Jurassic of Australia, containing the species S. kehli (named after the Kehl family of ‘Kolane’, Wandoan, Queensland where the fossil was found).

Discovery

Life restoration

It is solely known from the holotype specimen, which consists of a nearly complete skull with mandible and postcrania were found within the Westgrove Ironstone Member of the Evergreen Formation of the Surat Basin in Queensland. Dating to the late Toarcian at approximately 176.6 ma. Siderops was large, with a skull width 70 cm (28 in) wide and a total length of 2.6–2.7 m (8.5–8.9 ft).

Classification

Siderops belongs to the clade Brachyopomorpha, a subdivision of the greater clade Temnospondyl and placed in the superfamily Brachyopoidea and belonging in the Chigutisauridae family. Shown below is a cladogram of Brachyopoidea adapted from Warren et al. (1983) and Ruta et al. (2007).

Brachyopoidea 
 Brachyopidae 

Sinobrachyops

Xenobrachyops

Banksiops

Batrachosaurus

Vanastega

Vigilius

Batrachosuchus

 Chigutisauridae 

Chigutisaurus

Compsocerops

Kuttycephalus

Pelorocephalus

Siderops


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