''Blinasaurus'' is a name of an extinct

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

of prehistoric

brachyopid Brachyopidae is an extinct family of temnospondyl labyrintodonts. 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 ...

found in Triassic geological formations of Australia. The

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen( ...

is ''

Platyceps wilkinsonii ''Platycepsion wilksoni'' is an extinct species of prehistoric amphibian, known from partial skeleton deposited in shale at the Gosford Quarry site of the Terrigal Formation in Australia. Taxonomy The species is assigned to a currently monotyp ...

'' Stephens, 1887. The genus was established by

John W. Cosgriff John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

in 1969 to incorporate the type, discovered in New South Wales, and the author's new fossil species, ''

Blinasaurus henwoodi ''Batrachosuchus henwoodi'' is a fossil species of amphibian, first described as ''Blinasaurus henwoodi'' by John W. Cosgriff in 1969. The species was placed in a new generic combination when separating the genus ''Blinasaurus'', currently subsu ...

'', describing type material found in

Blina Shale Blina Shale is a fossil bearing geological formation located in the Kimberley region of Northwest Australia. The location is rich in deposits of vertebrate material, and the site of previously unknown Triassic species. Flora and invertebrate specie ...

in the

Kimberley Kimberly or Kimberley may refer to: Places and historical events Australia * Kimberley (Western Australia) ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Kimberley * Kimberley Warm Springs, Tasmania * Kimberley, Tasmania a small town * County of Kimberley, a ...

region of northwest Australia. The genus was represented by three species, however, the type species (''Platyceps wilkinsonii'' Stephens, 1887) was assigned to a new monotypic genus as '' Platycepsion wilkinsoni''. A species described by Cosgriff in the same study was placed in a new combination as ''

Batrachosuchus henwoodi ''Batrachosuchus henwoodi'' is a fossil species of amphibian, first described as ''Blinasaurus henwoodi'' by John W. Cosgriff in 1969. The species was placed in a new generic combination when separating the genus '' Blinasaurus'', currently subsu ...

''.

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Brachyopids Prehistoric life genera {{temnospondyli-stub