Brachyopidae

Batrachosuchus

• Worldwide

The Brachyopidae are an extinct group of aquatic, medium-sized terrestrial vertebrates from the group of Temnospondyli. They lived mainly in the Triassic, but are also from the Middle Jurassic of China and Mongolia established. The late forms survived probably in regions that were geographically isolated, or had a cool climate, so they were not inhabited by crocodiles.

Externally they resembled today's giant salamanders. Her head was broad and flat, the big eyes sitting near the front. In the maxilla, they had large fangs, probably they were fish -eaters. The animals spent most of their life in water. The legs were relatively small and were probably only used to migrate from a body of water to another.

Genera

The various species are distinguished mainly by their skull anatomy.

• Banksiops
• Batrachosaurus
• Batrachosuchoides
• Batrachosuchus
• Blinasaurus
• Brachyops
• Gobiops
• Notobrachyops
• Platycepsion
• Sinobrachyops
• Vanastega
• Vigilius
• Xenobrachyops