Brachyopidae is an extinct family of temnospondyls.Warren, A. A., & Marsicano, C. (1998) Revision of the Brachyopidae (Temnospondyli) from the Triassic of the Sydney, Carnarvon and Tasmania Basin, Australia: Alcheringa v. 22, p. 329-342. They evolved in the early Mesozoic and were mostly aquatic. A fragmentary find from Lesotho, Africa is estimated to have been long, the largest amphibian ever known to have lived besides Prionosuchus and Mastodonsaurus.Steyer, J.S. & Damiani, R. (2005): A giant brachyopoid temnospondyl from the Upper Triassic or Lower Jurassic of Lesotho. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, no. 3: pp 243-248. abstract Brachyopids were the only group of temnospondyls to survive into the Jurassic aside from their sister family Chigutisauridae; there are records of brachyopids from the Jurassic of Asia.
List of genera
Banksiops Bathignathus Batrachosaurus Batrachosuchoides Batrachosuchus Brachyops Gobiops Notobrachyops ?Pachygonia Platycepsion Sinobrachyops Vanastega Vigilius Xenobrachyops
References
External links Brachyopidae at Palaeos.