On a small Cochleosaurus described as a large Limnogyrinus (Amphibia, Temnospondyli) from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic
Andrew R. Milner and Sandra E.K. Sequeira
Limnogyrinus elegans (Fritsch) is the most primitive micromelerpetontid temnospondyl from the Upper Carboniferous of Nýřany, Czech Republic. A recent revision of the taxon by Werneburg (1994) attributed to this species a skull in dorsal aspect which was significantly larger than any previously reported and showed evidence of snout elongation. Restudy of this specimen demonstrates it to be a skull, visible in ventral aspect, of a juvenile of Cochleosaurus bohemicus, a more primitive edopoid temnospondyl, which is frequent in the Nýřany assemblage. Werneburg's diagnosis of Limnogyrinus is revised and the problems of constructing ontogenetic series are discussed.
Key words: Amphibia, Temnospondyli, Dissorophoidea, Carboniferous, Czech Republic.
Andrew. R. Milner [a.milner@bbk.ac.uk] and Sandra E.K. Sequeira, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, England.
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