Chinlestegophis
| Chinlestegophis Temporal range: Late Triassic, | |
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| Scientific classification | |
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| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
| Superfamily: | †Metoposauroidea? |
| Genus: | †Chinlestegophis Pardo et al., 2017 |
| Binomial name | |
| †Chinlestegophis jenkinsi Pardo et al., 2017 | |
Chinlestegophis is a diminutive Late Triassic stereospondyl that has been interpreted as a putative stem caecilian, a living group of legless burrowing amphibians. If Chinlestegophis is indeed both an advanced stereospondyl and a relative of caecilians, this means that stereospondyls (in the form of caecilians) survived to the present day; historically the group was thought to have gone extinct by the early Cretaceous. Chinlestegophis jenkinsi, the type and only species, is known from two partial skulls discovered in the Chinle Formation in Colorado.
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