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(Redirected from Metoposauroid) Extinct superfamily of temnospondyls

Metoposauroids
Temporal range: Triassic, 237–208 Ma PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Life restoration of Anaschisma browni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Stereospondyli
Clade: Trematosauria
Superfamily: Metoposauroidea
Watson, 1919
Subgroups

Metoposauroidea is an extinct superfamily of temnospondyls that lived from the Middle to Upper Triassic in North America, Europe and North Africa. Metoposauroidea includes the families Metoposauridae and Latiscopidae.

References

  1. Brusatte, S. L., Butler R. J., Mateus O., & Steyer S. J. (2015). A new species of Metoposaurus from the Late Triassic of Portugal and comments on the systematics and biogeography of metoposaurid temnospondyls. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. e912988., 2015:
  2. http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Amphibia/Limnarchia/Metoposauroidea.htm Archived 2007-08-23 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 2007/12/16
Stereospondyli
Tetrapodomorpha
Temnospondyli
Stereospondyli
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Stereospondyli
Stereospondyli
Lapillopsidae
Rhinesuchidae
Lydekkerinidae
Capitosauria
Trematosauria
    • see below↓
Uranocentrodon senekalensis

Lydekkerina huxleyi

Paracyclotosaurus davidi
Trematosauria
Trematosauria
Benthosuchidae
Trematosauridae
Metoposauridae
Rhytidosteidae
Derwentiinae
Chigutisauridae
Brachyopidae
Plagiosauridae
Trematolestes hagdorni

Metoposaurus diagnosticus

Gerrothorax pulcherrimus
Taxon identifiers
Metoposauroidea


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