Eryopidae

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iEryopidae

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Superclass: Tetrapoda
Class: Amphibia
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Euskelia
Superfamily: Eryopoidea
Family: Eryopidae
Cope, 1882
Genera

Eryops
Chelyderpeton
Clamorosaurus
Onchiodon
Osteophorus
Sclerocephalus
Syndyodosuchus

Eryopidae are a family of medium to large Permian temnospondyli amphibians, known from North America and Europe, of which the best known form is the large species Eryops megacephalus. They are defined cladistically as all Eryopoidea with interpterygoid vacuities (spaces in the interpterygoid bone) that are rounded at the front; and large external nares (Laurin and Steyer 2000). Not all of the genera poreviously included in the Eryopidae (Carroll 19888) are retained under the cladistic revisions.


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