Siderops

Siderops
Temporal range: Early Jurassic, Late Toarcian
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Holotype skeleton
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Stereospondyli
Family: Chigutisauridae
Genus: Siderops
Warren and Hutchinson, 1983
Species:
S. kehli
Binomial name
Siderops kehli
Warren and Hutchinson, 1983

Siderops (from the Greek sideros meaning “iron” and -ops meaning “face” ) is an extinct genus of chigutisaurid temnospondyl from Early Jurassic of Australia, containing the species S. kehli (named after the Kehl family of ‘Kolane’, Wandoan, Queensland where the fossil was found).