Brachyopidae Temporal range:
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Batrachosuchus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | † Temnospondyli |
Suborder: | † Stereospondyli |
Superfamily: | † Brachyopoidea |
Family: | †
Brachyopidae Lydekker, 1885 |
Brachyopidae is an extinct family of temnospondyls. [1] They evolved in the early Mesozoic and were mostly aquatic. A fragmentary find from Lesotho, Africa is estimated to have been 7 metres (23 ft) long, the largest amphibian ever known to have lived besides Prionosuchus and Mastodontosaurus. [2] Brachyopids were the only group of temnospondyls to survive into the Jurassic aside from their sister family Chigutisauridae. With records of the family from the Jurassic of Asia.