Gephyrosauridae

Gephyrosauridae Temporal range: Late Triassic - Early Jurassic, 200–195 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Rhynchocephalia
Family:	†Gephyrosauridae Evans, 1980
Type species
†Gephyrosaurus bridensis Evans, 1980
Genera
†Gephyrosaurus Evans, 1980^[1] †Diphydontosaurus Whiteside, 1986 †Penegephyrosaurus Whiteside & Duffin, 2017^[2]

Gephyrosauridae was a family of sphenodonts that lived in the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic. The members of Gephyrosauridae were named lepidosaurs in 1985 by Michael Benton.^[1]

Distribution

The members of Gephyrosauridae were from the United Kingdom, and Italy.^[1]

1 2 3 The Paleobiology Database
↑ David I. Whiteside, FLS; Christopher J. Duffin, FLS (2017). "Late Triassic terrestrial microvertebrates from Charles Moore's "Microlestes" quarry, Holwell, Somerset, UK". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 179 (3): 677–705. doi:10.1111/zoj.12458.

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