# Arganasaurus

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***Arganasaurus*** is an extinct [genus](/source/Genus) of [temnospondyls](/source/Temnospondyl) belonging to the family [Metoposauridae](/source/Metoposauridae) that lived in Morocco during the Late Triassic ([Carnian](/source/Carnian)).

## Taxonomy

The type species of *Arganasaurus*, *A. lyazidi*, was originally described as *Metoposaurus lyazidi* by Dutuit (1976) on the basis of skulls found in the [Argana Formation](/source/Argana_Formation) of northern Morocco.[1] Hunt (1993) found the species generically distinct from the *Metoposaurus* type species to warrant its own genus, which he named *Arganasaurus*.[2]

The nominal species *"Metoposaurus" azerouali* Dutuit, 1976, treated as a *nomen dubium* by Hunt (1993), was referred to *Arganasaurus* by Buffa *et al.* (2019).[3]

## Habitat

*Arganasaurus* is one of two metoposaurids that inhabited the Argana Basin in the Late Triassic, the other being *[Dutuitosaurus](/source/Dutuitosaurus)*. Tetrapods living alongside the two metoposaurids included the allokotosaur *[Azendohsaurus laaroussi](/source/Azendohsaurus)*, the phytosaurs *[Arganarhinus](/source/Arganarhinus)* and *[Moroccorhinus](/source/Angistorhinus)*, the silesaurid *[Diodorus](/source/Diodorus_scytobrachion)*, the stahleckeriid *[Moghreberia](/source/Moghreberia)*, and the rauisuchid *[Arganasuchus](/source/Arganasuchus)*.

## See also

- [Prehistoric amphibian](/source/Prehistoric_amphibian)
- [List of prehistoric amphibians](/source/List_of_prehistoric_amphibians)

## References

1. Dutuit, J.M., 1976. Introduction à l’étude paléontologique du Trias continental marocain. Description des premiers Stegocephales recueillis dans le couloir d’Argana (Atlas occidental). Memoires du Museum National d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. Series C 36: 1–253.

1. Hunt, A.P. 1993. Revision of the Metoposauridae (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) and description of a new genus from Western North America. In: M. Morales (eds.), Aspects of Mesozoic Geology and Paleontology of the Colorado Plateau. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 59: 67–97.

1. Valentin Buffa; Nour-Eddine Jalil; J.-Sebastien Steyer (2019). "Redescription of *Arganasaurus (Metoposaurus) azerouali* (Dutuit) comb. nov. from the Upper Triassic of the Argana Basin (Morocco), and the first phylogenetic analysis of the Metoposauridae (Amphibia, Temnospondyli)". Papers in Palaeontology. in press. [doi:10.1002/spp2.1259](https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1259).

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