{{Short description|Extinct genus of amphibians}} {{Italic title}} {{Speciesbox | name = ''Platyrhinops'' | fossil_range = Late Carboniferous, {{fossil_range|307.1|305}} | image = PSM V72 D566 Pelion lyelli quadraped from carboniferous ohio.png | image_caption = Holotype of ''platyrhinops lyelli'' with bones outlined in white | image_alt = | genus = Platyrhinops | species = lyelli | display_parents = 2 | parent_authority = Steen, 1931 | authority = Wyman, 1858 (as ''Raniceps lyelli'') | synonyms = ''Raniceps lyelli'' <small>Wyman, 1858 [preoccupied]</small><br/> ''Pelion lyelli'' <small>Wyman in Cope, 1868 </small><br/> ''Tuditanus mordax'' <small>Cope, 1874 </small><br/> ''Pelion lyellii'' <small>Cope, 1875 </small><br/> ''Ichthycanthus platypus'' <small>Cope, 1877 </small> <br/> ''Eryops platypus'' <small>Cope, 1888 </small><br/> ''Diceratosaurus punctolineatus'' <small>Moodie, 1909 </small><br/> ?''Leptophractus lancifer'' <small>Romer, 1930 </small><br/> ''Platyrhinops mordax'' <small>Steen, 1931 </small><br/> ''Amphibamus lyelli'' <small>Bolt, 1979 </small> }}
'''''Platyrhinops''''' is an extinct genus amphibamid temnospondyl from the Late Carboniferous (late Westphalian stage) of Ohio and the Czech Republic. It is known from many partial skeletons from the Linton site in Saline Township, Ohio<ref name=Overview>{{cite journal |title=An Overview of the Upper Carboniferous Fossil Deposit at Linton, Ohio |url=https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/23240 |date=March 1988 |journal=The Ohio Journal of Science |volume=88 |pages=55–60 |issue=1 |author=Robert W. Hook and Donald Baird |hdl=1811/23240 }}</ref><ref name=Clack&Milner2009>{{cite journal |title=Morphology and systematics of the Pennsylvanian amphibian ''Platyrhinops lyelli'' (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/earth-and-environmental-science-transactions-of-royal-society-of-edinburgh/article/abs/morphology-and-systematics-of-the-pennsylvanian-amphibian-platyrhinops-lyelli-amphibia-temnospondyli/37590CE24E0BF1D3AE90FB489C15A822 |date=1992 |journal=Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |volume=100 |pages=275–295 |issue=3 |author=Jenny A. Clack, and Andrew R. Milner}}</ref> and at least 6 partial specimens from the Nýřany site from the Nýřany Member of the Kladno Formation in the Czech Republic.<ref name=Limnerpeton>{{cite journal |title=Revision of the amphibian genus ''Limnerpeton'' (Temnospondyli) from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic |url=http://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app48-123.html |year=2003 |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=48 |pages=123–141 |issue=1 |author=Andrew R. Milner and Sandra E.K. Sequeira }}</ref>
==Gallery== <gallery> Image:Amphibamus.JPG|Cast of holotype at UALVP. Image:Platyrhinops lyelli.jpg|Cast of holotype in the Field Museum of Natural History </gallery>
==See also== * Prehistoric amphibian * List of prehistoric amphibians
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Category:Amphibamids Category:Dissorophidae Category:Fossil taxa described in 1931 Category:Pennsylvanian temnospondyls of Europe Category:Pennsylvanian temnospondyls of North America Category:Carboniferous Ohio Category:Kasimovian genera Category:Prehistoric amphibian genera
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