Metoposauroidea

Metoposauroidea
Temporal range: Triassic
Life restoration of Koskinonodon perfecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Stereospondyli
clade: Trematosauria
Superfamily: Metoposauroidea
Families

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.[1]

References

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