Cosgriffius is an extinct genus of trematosaurian temnospondyl within the family Trematosauridae.[1][2][3] It was described in 1993 by Samuel P. Welles based on a single partial skull from the well-known Meteor Crater Quarry (Early Triassic Moenkopi Formation) in Arizona that also produced more abundant remains of the capitosaur Wellesaurus peabodyi.[4] The skull was long and slender, features typically associated with the trematosaurid subfamily Lonchorhynchinae. This is the only trematosaurid known from western North America.
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- ^ "Fossilworks: Cosgriffius". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Fortuny, Josep; Gastou, Stéphanie; Escuillié, François; Lovasoa Ranivoharimanana; J.-Sébastien Steyer (2017-06-29). "A new extreme longirostrine temnospondyl from the Triassic of Madagascar: phylogenetic and palaeobiogeographical implications for trematosaurids". Taylor & Francis. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.5155366.v1.
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- ^ Welles, Samuel P. (1993). "A review of lonchorhynchine trematosaurs (Labryrinthodontia), and a description of a new genus and species from the lower Moenkopi Formation of Arizona". PaleoBios. 14: 1–24.
