Xenobrachyops Explained

Xenobrachyops is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Olenekian Arcadia Formation of Australia, describing a single species, Xenobrachyops allos.^[1] It is estimated to have been around fifty centimetres long and its diet would have consisted of fish and insects.

Fossils of Xenobrachyops have been found in the Arcadia Formation at Rewan, central Queensland.

Notes and References

1. Warren, A.A. & Hutchinson, M.N., (1983). The last labyrinthodont? A new brachyopoid (Amphibia, Temnospondyli) from the Early Jurassic Evergreen Formation of Queensland, Australia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 303, 1–62.