Eryopoidea
| Eryopoids Temporal range: Pennsylvanian - Permian | |
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| Life restoration of Eryops megacephalus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Suborder: | †Euskelia |
| Superfamily: | †Eryopoidea Cope, 1882 |
| Families | |
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]
References
- ↑ Carroll, R. L. (1988). Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. W.H. Freeman & Co. ISBN 0-7167-1822-7.
- ↑ Yates, A. M. & Warren, A. A. (2000). "The phylogeny of the 'higher' temnospondyls (Vertebrata: Choanata) and its implications for the monophyly and origins of the Stereospondyli". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 128 (1): 77–121. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb00650.x.
- ↑ Laurin. M and Steyer, J-S (2000). "Phylogeny and Apomorphies of Temnospondyls - Tree of Life project".
External links
- Palaeos
- Eryopoidea – Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
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