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Cochleosaurus
Extinct genus of temnospondyls / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cochleosaurus (“spoon lizard”, from the Latin cochlear "spoon" and Greek sauros “lizard”_ were medium-sized edopoid temnospondyls that lived in Euramerica during the Moscovian age.[1] Two species, C. bohemicus and C. florensis, have been identified from the fossil record.[2][1]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Temnospondyli |
Family: | †Cochleosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Cochleosaurinae |
Genus: | †Cochleosaurus Fritsch 1885 |
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Both species lived in equatorial saltwater marshes with highly variable water depth.[3] The majority of Cochleosaurus remains have been discovered in fossil assemblages in the Late Carboniferous Sydney Coalfield in Nova Scotia and the Kladno Formation in the Czech Republic.[1][2]