{{Short description|Extinct genus of amphibians}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Middle Permian | image = Kamacops acervalis skeleton.JPG | image_upright = | image_caption = Reconstructed skeleton | taxon = Kamacops | authority = Gubin, 1980 }} thumb|left|Restoration of ''Kamacops acervalis''
'''''Kamacops''''' is a genus of dissorophid temnospondyls known from the Middle to Late Permian of Russia that was described by Yuri Gubin in 1980.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Gubin|first=Yuri|date=1980|title=New Permian dissorophids of the Ural forelands|journal=Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal|language=ru|volume=1980|pages=82–90}}</ref> It is known from a single species, ''Kamacops acervalis,'' material of which is currently reposited in the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. ''Kamacops'' is one of the youngest dissorophids, along with ''Iratusaurus'' and ''Zygosaurus'' from Russia and ''Anakamacops'' from China and was one of the largest known dissorophids, with an estimated skull length of 24–30 cm.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Schoch|first=Rainer R.|date=1999|title=Studies on braincases of early tetrapods: structure, morphological diversity, and phylogeny - 2. Dissorophoids, eryopids, and stereospondyls.|journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen|volume=213|pages=289–312}}</ref> It is typically recovered as being most closely related to ''Zygosaurus'' and to the North American ''Cacops''<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Schoch|first1=R. R.|year=2012|title=Character distribution and phylogeny of the dissorophid temnospondyls|journal=Fossil Record|volume=15|issue=2|pages=121–137|doi=10.1002/mmng.201200010|doi-access=free}}</ref>''.'' A detailed study of the braincase region was performed by Schoch (1999),<ref name=":1" /> one of the first to examine this region in dissorophids. This study revealed extensive co-ossification of the braincase.
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Category:Permian temnospondyls Category:Dissorophidae Category:Fossils of Russia Category:Prehistoric amphibian genera {{temnospondyli-stub}}