Panthasaurus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of temnospondyls}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = [[Norian]], {{Fossil range|227|220}} | image = | image_caption = | genus = Panthasaurus | parent_authority = Chakravorti and Sengupta, 2018 | species = maleriensis | authority = (Chowdbury, 1965) | synonyms = *''[[Koskinonodon|Buettneria]] maleriensis'' <small>(Chowdbury, 1965)</small> *''[[Metoposaurus]] maleriensis'' <small>Chowdbury, 1965</small> }}

'''''Panthasaurus''''' is an extinct genus of large [[temnospondyl]] belonging to the family [[Metoposauridae]] that lived in India during the Late Triassic ([[Norian]]) of central India. It contains one species, '''''Panthasaurus maleriensis''''' from the [[Lower Maleri Formation]] of [[India]].

==Taxonomy== ''Metoposaurus maleriensis'' was coined by Chowdbury (1965) for metoposaurid remains from the Maleri Formation in the Pranhita–Godavari Basin of eastern India.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Chowdhury |first=T.R. |year=1965 |title=A new metoposauroid amphibian from the Upper Triassic Maleri Formation of Central India |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B |volume=250 |issue=761 |pages=1–52|doi=10.1098/rstb.1965.0019 |bibcode=1965RSPTB.250....1C |doi-access=free }}</ref> Later, Hunt (1993) transferred the species to the genus ''[[Koskinonodon|Buettneria]]'',<ref>{{cite book|last=Hunt |first=A.P. |year=1993 |chapter=Revision of the Metoposauridae (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) and description of a new genus from Western North America |editor-first=M. |editor-last=Morales |title=Aspects of Mesozoic Geology and Paleontology of the Colorado Plateau |series=Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin |volume=59 |pages=67–97}}</ref> which was followed by Sulej (2002).<ref>{{cite journal|last=Sulej |first=T. |year=2002 |title=Species discrimination of the Late Triassic temnospondyl amphibian ''Metoposaurus diagnosticus'' |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=47 |issue=3 |pages=535–546 |url=https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app47-535.html}}</ref>

In a paper published in 2018, Chakravorti and Sengupta concluded that specimens of ''Metoposaurus maleriensis'' formed a morphospace and morphotype distinct from metoposaurids found in [[Laurasia]]. They erected a new genus, ''Panthasaurus'', for ''M. maleriensis''.<ref>{{cite journal|first1=S. |last1=Chakravorti |first2=D.P. |last2=Sengupta |year=2018 |title=Taxonomy, morphometry and morphospace of cranial bones of ''Panthasaurus'' gen. nov. ''maleriensis'' from the Late Triassic of India |journal=Journal of Iberian Geology |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=317–340 |doi=10.1007/s41513-018-0083-1|s2cid=133977267 }}</ref>

==See also== {{Portal|Paleontology}} * [[Triassic–Jurassic extinction event]] * [[Timeline of paleontology]]

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[[Category:Metoposauridae]] [[Category:Norian genera]] [[Category:Triassic temnospondyls of Asia]] [[Category:Late Triassic amphibians of Asia]] [[Category:Triassic India]] [[Category:Fossil taxa described in 2018]] [[Category:Monotypic prehistoric amphibian genera]]