Chigutisauridae

{{Short description|Extinct family of temnospondyls}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Early Triassic|Early Cretaceous}} | image = Pelorocephalus1DB.jpg | image_caption = ''[[Pelorocephalus]]'' | taxon = Chigutisauridae | authority = Rusconi, [[1951 in paleontology|1951]] }} [[File:Arenaerpeton supinatus holotype.png|right|thumb|''[[Arenaerpeton|Arenaerpeton supinatus]]'' (specimen AM F125866) from the [[Sydney Basin]]]]

'''Chigutisauridae''' is an extinct [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] of large [[temnospondyl]]s. The only genera recognized as belonging to Chigutisauridae at the current time are all from [[Gondwana]]. Chigutisaurids first appeared during the Early Triassic in Australia.<ref name=Hart2023>{{Cite journal |last1=Hart |first1=Lachlan J. |last2=Gee |first2=Bryan M. |last3=Smith |first3=Patrick M. |last4=McCurry |first4=Matthew R. |date=2023-08-03 |title=A new chigutisaurid (Brachyopoidea, Temnospondyli) with soft tissue preservation from the Triassic Sydney Basin, New South Wales, Australia |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=42 |issue=6 |article-number=e2232829 |language=en |doi=10.1080/02724634.2023.2232829 |issn=0272-4634|doi-access=free |hdl=1959.4/104059 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> During the Late Triassic they became widely distributed in Gondwana, with fossils found in South Africa, India and South America.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=DIAS-da-SILVA|first1=Sérgio|last2=Sengupta|first2=Dhurjati P.|last3=Cabreira|first3=Sérgio F.|last4=Da Silva|first4=Lúcio R.|date=January 2012|title=The presence of ''Compsocerops'' (Brachyopoidea: Chigutisauridae) (Late Triassic) in southern Brazil with comments on chigutisaurid palaeobiogeography: INDIAN CHIGUTISAURID GENUS IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL|journal=Palaeontology|language=en|volume=55|issue=1|pages=163–172|doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01120.x|doi-access=}}</ref> ''[[Koolasuchus]]'' from the Early Cretaceous of Australia represents the youngest known temnospondyl.<ref name=Warren1997>{{cite journal|author=Warren, Anne; Rich, Thomas H.; Vickers-Rich, Patricia|year=1997|url=https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/pala/detail/247/101008/The_last_last_labyrinthodonts|title=The last last labyrinthodonts?|journal=Palaeontographica Abteilung A|volume=47|issue=1–4|pages=1–24 |doi=10.1127/pala/247/1997/1|bibcode=1997PalAA.247....1W |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=Hart2023/>

== List of genera == *''[[Arenaerpeton]]''<ref name=Hart2023/> *''[[Compsocerops]]'' *''[[Keratobrachyops]]'' (placement uncertain) *''[[Koolasuchus]]'' *''[[Kuttycephalus]]'' *''[[Pelorocephalus]]'' *''[[Siderops]]''

== References == {{Reflist}}

== Further reading == * {{cite journal|author=Sengupta, D.P.|date=1995|url=http://palaeontology.palass-pubs.org/pdf/Vol%2038/Pages%20313-339.pdf|title=Chigutisaurid temnspondyls from the Late Triassic of India and a review of the family Chigutisauridae|journal=Palaeontology|page=19-59|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727165447/http://palaeontology.palass-pubs.org/pdf/Vol%2038/Pages%20313-339.pdf|archive-date=July 27, 2011|url-status=usurped}} * Sengupta, D.P. 2003. Triassic temnospondyls of the Pranhita-Godavari Basin, India. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 21: 655-662.

== External links == * {{cite web|url=http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Units/160Temnospondyli/500.html|title=Chigutisauridae|website=Palaeos.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515092221/http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Units/160Temnospondyli/500.html|archive-date=May 15, 2008|url-status=dead}}

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