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Brachyopidae
Brachyopidae is an extinct family of temnospondyls. They evolved in the early Mesozoic and were mostly aquatic. A fragmentary find from Lesotho, Africa is estimated to have been long, the largest amphibian ever known to have lived besides Prionosuchus and Mastodonsaurus. Brachyopids were the only group of temnospondyls to survive into the Jurassic aside from their sister family Chigutisauridae; there are records of brachyopids from the Jurassic of Asia.
Batrachosuchus
Batrachosuchus is a genus of temnospondyl that existed from the Early to Middle Triassic of southern Africa (Ntawere Formation of Zambia and Burgersdorp Formation of South Africa) and the Blina Shale of Australia. The holotype is a skull registered at the Natural History Museum UK (NHMUK PV R 3589).
Vigilius
genus of amphibians (fossil)
Xenobrachyops
Xenobrachyops is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Olenekian Arcadia Formation of Australia, describing a single species, Xenobrachyops allos. It is estimated to have been around fifty centimetres long and its diet would have consisted of fish and insects.