Named By: | David S Berman, Robert R. Reisz & David A. Eberth in 1987 |
Time Period: | Late Carboniferous |
Location: | USA, New Mexico - Cutler Formation |
Size: | Skull 9 centimetres long. Total length estimated at 50 centimetres long |
Diet: | Carnivore/insectivore/piscivore |
Fossil(s): | Skull and partial post cranial remains |
Classification: | | Chordata | Amphibia | Temnospondyli | Trematopidae | |
Anconastes is an extinct genus of dissorophoidean euskelian temnospondyl within the family Trematopidae. It is known from several fossils from the Late Carboniferous Cutler Formation of north-central New Mexico in the southwestern United States.