Scincosauridae

Scincosauridae
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous
Life restoration of Scincosaurus crassus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: "Amphibia" (wide sense)
Subclass: Lepospondyli
Order: Nectridea
Family: Scincosauridae
Jaeckel, 1909

The Scincosauridae are an extinct family of nectridean lepospondyl amphibians. It includes the genera Scincosaurus and Sauravus.[1] Unlike most other nectrideans, scincosaurids are thought to have been terrestrial.

References

  1. Marcello Ruta, Michael I. Coates and Donald L. J. Quicke (2003). "Early tetrapod relationships revisited" (PDF). Biological Reviews 78 (2): 251–345. doi:10.1017/S1464793102006103. PMID 12803423.
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