Capitosauria
| Capitosauria Temporal range: Triassic | |
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| Mastodonsaurus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | "Amphibia" (wide sense) |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Clade: | †Stereospondylomorpha |
| Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
| Clade: | †Capitosauria Schoch and Milner, 2000 |
| Clades | |
Capitosauria is a clade of stereospondyl temnospondyls. Capitosauria and its sister taxon Trematosauria are the only major temnospondyl clades that existed during the Mesozoic.
Capitosauria was first named by Schoch and Milner (2000) and further described by Yates and Warren (2000), who assigned Lydekkerina and Mastodonsauroidea to it.[1][2] It was described by Damiani (2001) under the name Mastodonsauroidea.[3] In their phylogenetic analysis of temnospondyls, Ruta et al. (2007) placed Lydekkerina and its relatives within the clade Rhytidostea, while placing only mastodonsauroid taxa within Capitosauria.[4]
Phylogeny
Below is a cladogram from Fortuny et al. (2011) showing the phylogenetic relationships of capitosaurs:[5]
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References
- ↑ Schoch, R. R.; and Milner, A. R. (2000). "Stereospondyli". In P. Wellnhofer (ed.). Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie 3B. Munich: Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil. p. 203.
- ↑ Yates, A. M.; and Warren, A. A. (2000). "The phylogeny of the "higher" temnospondyls (Vertebrata: Choanata) and its implications for the monophyly and origins of Stereospondyli". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 128: 77–121. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb00650.x.
- ↑ Damiani, R. J. (2001). "A systematic revision and phylogenetic analysis of Triassic mastodonsauroids (Temnospondyli: Stereospondyli)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 133 (4): 379–482. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb00635.x.
- ↑ Ruta, M.; Pisani, D.; Lloyd, G. T.; and Benton, M. J. (2007). "A supertree of Temnospondyli: cladogenetic patterns in the most species-rich group of early tetrapods". Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274 (1629): 3087–3095. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1250. PMC 2293949. PMID 17925278.
- ↑ Fortuny, J.; Galobart, À.; Santisteban, C. D. (2011). "A New Capitosaur from the Middle Triassic of Spain and the Relationships within the Capitosauria". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (3): 553. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0025.
External links
- Capitosauria in the Paleobiology Database
- Cladogram of Mastodonsauroidea (=Capitosauria) at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
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