Eryopoidea Temporal range: Late Carboniferous to Permian |
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Eryops | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | †Temnospondyli |
Suborder: | †Euskelia |
Superfamily: | †Eryopoidea Cope, 1882 |
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Eryopoidea are a taxon of late Carboniferous and Permian temnospondyli amphibians, known from North America and Europe. Carroll includes no less than ten families,[1] but Yates and Warren replace this with a cladistic approach and include only two Permian families, the Eryopidae and Zatrachydidae.[2] They define the Eryopoidea as all Euskelia in which the choana are relatively rounded and the iliac blade vertical. A similar definition but without the Euskelia is provided by Laurin and Steyer.[3]
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