Metoposauroidea

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Metoposauroidea
Koskinonodon.
Koskinonodon.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Superclass: Tetrapoda
Class: Amphibia
Order: Temnospondyli
Infraorder: Trematosauria
Superfamily: Metoposauroidea
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Families

Metoposauridae
Latiscopidae [1]

Metoposauroidea was an extinct superfamily of Temnospondyli, that lived from the Middle to Upper Triassic in North America, Europe and North Africa. They consisted of the family Metoposauridae. Genera belonging to this family were Apachesaurus, Dutuitosaurus, Koskinonodon (Buettneria), Metoposaurus.

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Amphibia/Limnarchia/Metoposauroidea.htm Accessed 2007/12/16
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