Metoposauroidea
Metoposauroids Temporal range: Triassic, | |
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Life restoration of Anaschisma browni | |
Scientific 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.[1] Metoposauroidea includes the families Metoposauridae and Latiscopidae.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ 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:
- ^ 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