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Tersomius is an extinct genus of dissorophoid temnospondyl within the family Micropholidae. It is known from the early Permian of North America (Oklahoma and Texas).

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tersomius, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4975520	https://www.gbif.org/species/4975520
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	37035	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=37035

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Amphibia : Amphibamidae : Tersomius

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Amphibamidae : Tersomius

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Temnospondyli
-	Eutemnospondyli	Schoch 2013
-	Rhachitomi
-	Dissorophoidea
-	Xerodromes	Schoch and Milner 2014
family	Amphibamidae	Moodie 1912
genus	Tersomius	Case 1910

Scientific Name

Tersomius Case, 1910

Name Published In

Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 28

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Tersomius	genus	belongs to Dissorophidae	stated without evidence	Olson, 1970
Tersomius	genus	belongs to Dissorophidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Tersomius	genus	belongs to Temnospondyli	stated without evidence	Gauthier et al., 1989
Tersomius	genus	belongs to Dissorophoidea	stated with evidence	Yates and Warren, 2000
Tersomius	genus	belongs to Amphibamidae	stated with evidence	Anderson et al., 2008
Tersomius	genus	belongs to Temnospondyli	stated without evidence	Maddin et al., 2012

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

296 - 279 Ma
Permian

Last Recorded Appearance

279 - 268 Ma
Permian

Environment

brackish,freshwater,terrestrial (based on Tetrapoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Temnospondyli)

Diet

carnivore (based on Temnospondyli)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. C. Case. 1910. New or little known reptiles and amphibians from the Permian (?) of Texas. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 28:163-181

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tersomius

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Tersomius dolesensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Tersomius mosesi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Tersomius texensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	296 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Tersomus Case, 1911	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Amphibia : Amphibamidae : *Tersomus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1910	Tersomius Case p. 180
1970	Tersomius Olson p. 400
1973	Tersomius Daly p. 568
1988	Tersomius Carroll
1989	Tersomius Gauthier et al. p. 349
2000	Tersomius Yates and Warren pp. 84, 86 fig. 1
2008	Tersomius Anderson et al. p. 70 fig. 9
2011	Tersomius Bourget and Anderson p. 43
2012	Tersomius Maddin et al.

References

Case E. C. (1910) New or little known reptiles and amphibians from the Permian (?) of Texas, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 28, 163-181

Olson E. C. (1970) New and little known genera and species of vertebrates from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma, Fieldiana: Geology 18 3, 359-434

Daly E. (1973) A Lower Permian vertebrate fauna from southern Oklahoma, Journal of Paleontology 47 3, 562-589

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Gauthier J. A., Cannatella D., et al (1989) Tetrapod phylogeny, In B. Fernholm, K. Bremer, & H. Jörnvall (eds.), The Hierarchy of Life. Elsevier Science Publishers B. V., Amsterdam, 337-353

Yates A. M., Warren A. (2000) The phylogeny of the ‘higher’ temnospondyls (Vertebrata: Choanata) and its implications for the monophyly and origins of the Stereospondyli, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 128 1, 77-121

Anderson J. S., Henrici A. C., et al (2008) Georgenthalia clavinasica, a new genus and species of dissorophoid temnospondyl from the Early Permian of Germany, and the relationships of the family Amphibamidae, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 1, 61-75

Bourget H., Anderson J. S. (2011) A new amphibamid (Temnospondyli: Dissorophoidea) from the Early Permian of Texas, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31 1, 32-49 doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.539652

Maddin H. C., Jenkins Jr F. A., et al (2012) The Braincase of Eocaecilia micropodia (Lissamphibia, Gymnophiona) and the Origin of Caecilians, PLoS One 7 12, e50743 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050743

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 28 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Anderson & Bolt, 2013 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Milner, 2003 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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