Cacops
Extinct genus of amphibians / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cacops ("ugly look" for its strange appearance), is a genus of dissorophid temnospondyls from the Kungurian stage of the early Permian of the United States.[2][3] Cacops is one of the few olsoniforms (dissorophids and the larger trematopids) whose ontogeny is known.[4][5] Cacops fossils were almost exclusively known from the Cacops Bone Bed of the Lower Permian Arroyo Formation of Texas for much of the 20th century.[1] New material collected from the Dolese Brothers Quarry, near Richards Spur, Oklahoma in the past few decades has been recovered, painting a clearer picture of what the animal looked and acted like.[2][3][6]
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Skeleton of Cacops aspidephorus in the Field Museum | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Temnospondyli |
Family: | †Dissorophidae |
Clade: | †Eucacopinae |
Genus: | †Cacops Williston, 1910[1] |
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