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Xerodromeus Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Tetrapoda
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Family:	†Branchiosauridae
Genus:	†Xerodromeus
Species:	†X. gracilis
Binomial name
†Xerodromeus gracilis Credner, 1881

Xerodromeus is an extinct monotypic genus of branchiosaurid temnospondyl that lived in Germany during the Sakmarian stage of the Cisuralian epoch.

Description

Autapomorphies of Xerodromeus included a supratemporal as wide as or wider than it was long, a highly abbreviated suture between the supratemporal and the squamosal that created a large tympanic embayment, and a wide and foreshortened basal plate of the parasphenoid. Other autapomorphies, only present in adults, included quadrate condyles significantly posterior to the occipital flange of the postparietal, a lengthened basipterygoid ramus and a thin palatine ramus, a pterygoid possessing a diminished transverse flange, an exceptionally large scapulocoracoid whose area was comparable to that of the entire postorbital skull table, and cylindrical pleurocentra and unpaired, crescent-shaped intercentra throughout the anterior and middle portions of the trunk of the individual.