Indolyrocephalus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of temnospondyls}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Induan}} | parent_authority = Tripathi, 1969 | taxon = Indolyrocephalus huxleyi | authority = ([[Richard Lydekker|Lydekker]], 1882) | synonyms = ''Gonioglyptus huxleyi'' <small>Lydekker, 1882</small> }}

'''''Indolyrocephalus''''' is an extinct [[genus]] of [[temnospondyl]]s belonging to the family [[Trematosauridae]]. It contains a single species, '''''I. huxleyi''''', from the [[Early Triassic]] [[Panchet Formation]] of [[India]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bandyopadhyay |first1=Saswati |last2=Ray |first2=Sanghamitra |date=2020-03-01 |title=Gondwana Vertebrate Faunas of India: Their Diversity and Intercontinental Relationships |journal=Episodes Journal of International Geoscience |language=en |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=438–460 |doi=10.18814/epiiugs/2020/020028 |doi-access=free}}</ref> It was initially classified in ''[[Gonioglyptus]]'', then into its own genus ''Indolyrocephalus'', and then back into ''Gonioglyptus<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Steyer |first=J. Sébastien |date=July 2002 |title=The First Articulated Trematosaur 'amphibian' from the Lower Triassic of Madagascar: Implications for the Phylogeny of the Group |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1475-4983.00260 |journal=Palaeontology |language=en |volume=45 |issue=4 |pages=771–793 |doi=10.1111/1475-4983.00260 |bibcode=2002Palgy..45..771S |issn=0031-0239|url-access=subscription }}</ref>'', but is presently placed in ''Indolyrocephalus'' once again.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bandyopadhyay |first1=Saswati |last2=Ray |first2=Sanghamitra |date=2020-03-01 |title=Gondwana Vertebrate Faunas of India: Their Diversity and Intercontinental Relationships |journal=Episodes Journal of International Geoscience |language=en |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=438–460 |doi=10.18814/epiiugs/2020/020028|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ezcurra |first1=Martín D. |last2=Bandyopadhyay |first2=Saswati |last3=Sengupta |first3=Dhurjati P. |last4=Sen |first4=Kasturi |last5=Sennikov |first5=Andrey G. |last6=Sookias |first6=Roland B. |last7=Nesbitt |first7=Sterling J. |last8=Butler |first8=Richard J. |date=October 2023 |title=A new archosauriform species from the Panchet Formation of India and the diversification of Proterosuchidae after the end-Permian mass extinction |journal=Royal Society Open Science |language=en |volume=10 |issue=10 |doi=10.1098/rsos.230387 |doi-access=free|issn=2054-5703 |pmc=10598453 |pmid=37885992|bibcode=2023RSOS...1030387E }}</ref>

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[[Category:Trematosauridae]] [[Category:Triassic temnospondyls of Asia]] [[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1969]] [[Category:Fossils of India]]