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ArticlePeerJ2026

Specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of North American metoposaurids: a case for monospecific genera in vertebrate paleontology.

Aaron M Kufner

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Aaron M KufnerDepartment of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4645-5540

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Abstract

The Metoposauridae were a widespread family of aquatic Late Triassic temnospondyl amphibians known from numerous localities in non-marine strata of the Northern Hemisphere, India, and Madagascar. Recent descriptions of intraspecific variation in skulls from hyper accumulations suggest some characters used in species diagnoses may be variable within hypothesized populations. This realization necessitates the reevaluation of taxonomic diagnoses for previously established species. Multiple monospecific hyper accumulations of different metoposaurid taxa are known in North America providing a relatively large sample to assess the validity of the North American taxa:

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AmphibiansFossilsPaleontologyPhylogenyAnimalsNorth AmericaSkullAmphibiansMetoposauridaePhylogenySpecimen-level analysisTemnospondyliTriassic

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PMID42801063
PMCPMC13615736

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