Anaschisma
Sign in to saveAnaschisma ("ripped up") is an extinct genus of large temnospondyls. These animals were part of the family called Metoposauridae, which filled the crocodile-like predatory niches in the late Triassic. It had a large skull about long, and possibly reached long. It was an ambush hunter, snapping up anything small enough to fit in its huge jaws. It was very common during the Late Triassic (Carnian-Norian age) in what is now the American Southwest.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Anaschisma is referenced by 185 other articles, and connects out to Temnospondyli, list of prehistoric amphibians and United States.
It sits within the topics Fossil taxa described in 1905, Metoposauridae and Norian genera.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Metoposauridae
- Image
- Buettneria.jpg
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- taxon name
- Anaschisma
- taxon rank
- genus
- start time
- 227000000-
- end time
- 208000000-
- Commons category
- Anaschisma
- time period
- Late Triassic
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