''Mattauschia'' is an extinct

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of trematopid

temnospondyl Temnospondyli (from Greek language, Greek τέμνειν, ''temnein'' 'to cut' and σπόνδυλος, ''spondylos'' 'vertebra') is a diverse order (biology), order of small to giant tetrapods—often considered Labyrinthodontia, primitive amphi ...

s from the Late Carboniferous of the Czech Republic.

Taxonomy

The type species of ''Mattauschia'', ''M. laticeps'', was named ''

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laticeps'' by Fritsch (1881) for a small post-metamorphic specimen from Late Carboniferous coal deposits in the Czech Republic. Milner and Sequeira (2003) synonymized it and the nominal species ''Limnerpeton macrolepis'' with '' Mordex calliprepes'', interpreting them as representing growth stages of one trematopid species.Milner, A.R. and Sequeira, S.E.K. 2003. Revision of the amphibian genus Limnerpeton (Temnospondyli) from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48 (1): 123–141. Milner (2018) eventually recognized ''laticeps'' as distinct from the ''M. calliprepes'' holotype, so he erected ''Mattauschia'' for ''laticeps'', which includes the lectotype specimen NMP M470/471 as well as the paralectotype NMP M639 and ''Limnerpeton macrolepis'' lectotype NMP M472.

References

Trematopids Prehistoric amphibian genera Carboniferous temnospondyls of Europe Fossil taxa described in 2018 {{carboniferous-animal-stub

Taxonomy

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