Banksiops

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Banksiops
File:Banksiops townrowi.jpg
Restoration of Banksiops townrowi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Tetrapoda
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Stereospondyli
Family: Brachyopidae
Genus: Banksiops
Warren & Marsicano, 2000
Species
  • Banksiops townrowi
Synonyms
  • Blinasaurus townrowi

Banksiops is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian in the family Brachyopidae, recovered from the Knocklofty Formation, Tasmania.[1]

The type species, Blinasaurus townrowi, Cosgriff, 1974, was published as Banksia townrowi Warren & Marsicano, 1998 in a revision that erected this genus, a name emended to Banksiops townrowi Warren & Marsicano, 2000 in a subsequent note. The authors Anne Warren and Claudia Marscicano were alerted to another animal, a species of mite, that had used the name to commemorate the acarologist Nathan Banks. The genus name Banksia, still current for the flowering plants Banksia (named for Joseph Banks), was proposed by the palaeontologists Warren and Marsicano for the geologist Max Banks.[1]

File:Blinasaurus townrowi skull.jpg
Skull

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