Platycepsion

Platycepsion
Partial skeleton, drawn in 1887
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Tetrapoda
Order: †Temnospondyli
Suborder: †Stereospondyli
Family: †Brachyopidae
Genus: †Platycepsion
Kuhn 1964
Species:
†P. wilksoni
Binomial name
†Platycepsion wilksoni
(Stephens, 1887)

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. This specimen may represent a larval stage, as denoted by the presence of external gills, making it the first evidence of larval development in stereospondyls.

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