Brachyopidae

Brachyopidae is an extinct family of temnospondyls. They evolved in the early Mesozoic and were mostly aquatic. A fragmentary find from Lesotho, Africa is estimated to have been 7 m long, the largest amphibian ever known to have lived besides Prionosuchus and Mastodontosaurus. Brachyopids were the only group of temnospondyls to survive into the Jurassic aside from their sister family Chigutisauridae. With records of the family from the Jurassic of Asia.

List of genera

 * Banksiops
 * Bathignathus
 * Batrachosaurus
 * Batrachosuchoides
 * Batrachosuchus
 * Brachyops
 * Gobiops
 * Notobrachyops
 * ?Pachygonia
 * Platycepsion
 * Sinobrachyops
 * Vanastega
 * Vigilius
 * Xenobrachyops