Brachystelechidae is an extinct family of Early Permian microsaurs. The family was first named by Robert L. Carroll and Pamela Gaskill in 1978, with the only member being Brachystelechus fritschi.[1] Brachystelechus fritschi has since been reassigned to the genus Batropetes.[2] Genera assigned to the family include: Batropetes, from Germany;[1] Carrolla, from Texas;[3] Quasicaecilia, also from Texas;[4] Diabloroter, from the Mazon Creek lagerstätte of Illinois;[5] and Bromerpeton from the Tambach Formation of Germany.[6]
| Brachystelechidae Temporal range: Early Permian
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| Batropetes | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Microsauria |
| Clade: | †Recumbirostra |
| Clade: | †Chthonosauria |
| Family: | †Brachystelechidae |
References edit
- ^ a b Carroll, R. L.; Gaskill, P. (1978). The Order Microsauria. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 126. DIANE Publishing. pp. 1–211. ISBN 9780871691262.
- ^ Carroll, R. L. (1991). "Batropetes from the Lower Permian of Europe- a microsaur, not a reptile". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 11 (2): 229–242. Bibcode:1991JVPal..11..229C. doi:10.1080/02724634.1991.10011390.
- ^ Langston, W. Jr.; Olson, E. C. (1986). "Carrolla craddocki, a new genus and species of microsaur from the Lower Permian of Texas". Pearce-Sellards Series, Texas Memorial Museum. 43: 1–20.
- ^ Carroll, R. L. (1990). "A tiny microsaur: size constraints in Palaeozoic tetrapods". Palaeontology. 33: 1–17.
- ^ Mann, Arjan; Maddin, Hillary C (2019-09-30). "Diabloroter bolti, a short-bodied recumbirostran 'microsaur' from the Francis Creek Shale, Mazon Creek, Illinois". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 187 (2): 494–505. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz025. ISSN 0024-4082.
- ^ MacDougall, Mark J.; Jannel, Andréas; Henrici, Amy C.; Berman, David S.; Sumida, Stuart S.; Martens, Thomas; Fröbisch, Nadia B.; Fröbisch, Jörg (2024-02-20). "A new recumbirostran 'microsaur' from the lower Permian Bromacker locality, Thuringia, Germany, and its fossorial adaptations". Scientific Reports. 14 (1): 4200. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-46581-3. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 10879142.
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