#temnovember2025 day 17: Lapillopsis
A bit late, but here we have #Lapillopsis, a really small (the scale is 1cm) (extra cute points) #lapillopsid from the early #Triassic of Australia
#paleoaert #sciart #temnospondyl #temnovember #amphibian #stereospondyl

#temnovember2024 day 16: Cryobatrachus
we return to #temnovember and now is time for the #stereospondyl, starting with the small antartic #lydekkerinid #Cryobatrachus from the early triassic
#paleoart #sciart #amphibian #temnospondyl #triassic

#temnovember2024 day 19: Benthosuchus
Day nineteen of #temnovember an its time for #Benthosuchus, a large log snouted early triassic #benthosuchid #stereospondyl from Russia
#paleoart #sciart #amphibian #temnospondyl #triassic

a freshwater apex predator, gaiasia lived in a cold temperate lacustrine environment, where it coexisted with a currently undescribed stereospondyl amphibian in addition to several (also undescribed) fish and bivalves

After many SVPs, @calamanderso.bsky.social et al. (CC: @akufner.bsky.social @jdpardo.bsky.social @paleobadger.bsky.social) delivered the description of Ninumbeehan dookoodukah, a small Late Triassic temno preserved in estivation burrows. doi.org/10.1098/rspb... (CC: @serpenillus.bsky.social for art)

For the first #FossilFriday of 2025, here's my annual thread looking back on the #temnospondyl research that came out last year! In general, papers were skewed towards anatomical descriptions of specifically European taxa that were predominantly from Triassic deposits.

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I also have a partially incomplete dataset aiming to record all published specimens, which includes more than 7,000 records at present despite not having started/finished N American metoposaurids, branchiosaurids, micromelerpetids, and non-stereospondyl stereospondylomorphs

#Metoposaurus meaning "front lizard" is an extinct genus of stereospondyl temnospondyls, known from the Late Triassic of Germany, Italy, Poland, and Portugal.[1][2] This animal was mostly aquatic,[3] possessing small

made it through the Great Dying. the 1.5 meter long Benthosuchid Kwatisuchus, the Stereospondyl Tomeia, and Rhytidosteid Sangaia, are all members of the order called Temnospondyls that first evolved in the carboniferous period, many of their ancestors took refuge in the waterways of their world.-

most. despite the easy prey, Chiniquodon had competition in the form of several unnamed predators, like a Phytosaur, a kind of crocodile like reptile that existed for 28 million years, a Metoposaur, an ancient amphibious tetrapod that would die out at the end of the triassic, and a Stereospondyl-