Plagiosaurus
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| Plagiosaurus Temporal range: Triassic
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| File:Plagiosaurus DB.jpg | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Tetrapoda |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
| Family: | †Plagiosauridae |
| Genus: | †Plagiosaurus Jaekel, 1914 |
| Type species | |
| †Plagiosaurus depressus Jaekel, 1914
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Plagiosaurus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian. The type and only species is P. depressus, first described by Otto Jaekel in 1914.[1] Arthur Smith Woodward regarded the genus as a synonym of Plagiosternum, but most researchers consider it to be valid.[2] It was paedomorphic, retaining the larval gills in adulthood. Like many stereospondyls, it had weak simplified vertebrae, consisting of large intercentra and neural arches, which is known as the stereospondylous condition.
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