Notobrachyops

{{Short description|Extinct genus of amphibians}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Late Triassic}} | image = Notobrachyops picketti.png | image_caption = Life Restoration | taxon = Notobrachyops | authority = Cosgriff, 1967 | type_species = ''Notobrachyops picketti'' | type_species_authority = Cosgriff, 1967 }}

'''''Notobrachyops''''' is a [[genus]] of [[brachyopidae|brachyopid]] [[temnospondyli|temnospondyl]] amphibian. It is known from a skull roof impression found in the [[Ashfield Shale]] ([[Late Triassic]]) of Mortdale, [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]]. The Ashfield Shale has also yielded a shark species, a [[lungfish]] species, six species of [[palaeoniscidae|paleoniscid]] fish, a species of [[holostei|holostean fish]], a subholostean fish, and the [[labyrinthodont]] amphibian ''[[Paracyclotosaurus|Paracyclotosaurus davidi]]''.<ref name=cosgriff>{{cite journal |last=Cosgriff |first=J. W. |year=1973 |title=''Notobrachyops picketti'', a brachyopid from the Ashfield Shale, Wiannamatta Group, New South Wales |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=47 |issue=6 |pages=1094–1101}}</ref>

==See also== * [[List of prehistoric amphibians]] * [[Prehistoric amphibian]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

[[Category:Stereospondyli]] [[Category:Triassic amphibians of Australia]] [[Category:Triassic temnospondyls of Australia]] [[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1973]]