{{Short description|Extinct genus of amphibians}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = [[Early Triassic]], {{fossilrange|Olenekian}} | image = Xenobrachyops skull.png | image_caption = Holotype skull of ''X. allos'' | genus = Xenobrachyops | parent_authority = Warren and Hutchinson 1983 | species = allos | authority = ([[Anne Howie|Howie]], 1972) | synonyms = *''[[Brachyops]] allos'' <small>Howie, 1972</small> }}
'''''Xenobrachyops''''' is an [[extinction|extinct]] [[genus]] of [[temnospondyl]] [[amphibian]] from the [[Olenekian]] [[Arcadia Formation, Australia|Arcadia Formation]] of [[Australia]], describing a single species, '''''Xenobrachyops allos'''''.<ref>Warren, A.A. & Hutchinson, M.N., (1983). The last labyrinthodont? A new brachyopoid (Amphibia, Temnospondyli) from the Early Jurassic Evergreen Formation of Queensland, Australia. ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B'' ''303'', 1–62.</ref> It is estimated to have been around fifty centimetres long and its diet would have consisted of [[fish]] and [[insects]].
[[Fossils]] of ''Xenobrachyops'' have been found in the [[Arcadia Formation, Australia|Arcadia Formation]] at Rewan, central [[Queensland]].<ref name="Howie1972" /><ref name="Fossilworks" />
== References == <references> <ref name="Fossilworks">{{cite web |title=Fossilworks: Xenobrachyops |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=150352 |website=fossilworks.org |access-date=17 December 2021}}</ref> <ref name="Howie1972">{{cite journal |last1=Howie |first1=A. |author-link1=Anne Howie |title=A brachyopid labyrinthodont from the Lower Trias of Queensland |journal=Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales |date=1972 |volume=96 |pages=268–277 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/47790}}</ref> </references>
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[[Category:Brachyopidae]] [[Category:Induan life]] [[Category:Olenekian life]] [[Category:Triassic temnospondyls of Australia]] [[Category:Paleontology in Queensland]] [[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1972]]
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