Emydopoidea

Emydopoidea Temporal range: Late Permian - Middle Triassic
Restoration of the emydopoid Myosaurus gracilis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Suborder:	† Anomodontia
Clade:	† Dicynodontia
Clade:	† Therochelonia
Superfamily:	† Emydopoidea Cluver and King, 1983
Subgroups
Digalodon Rastodon Thliptosaurus Cistecephalidae Emydopidae Kingoriidae Myosauridae

Emydopoidea is a group of Late Permian dicynodont therapsids. It includes the small-bodied Emydops , Myosaurus , and kingoriids, and the burrowing cistecephalids. ^[1]

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram modified from Macungo et al. (2022) showing the phylogenetic relationships of emydopoids: ^[2]

Emydopoidea	Rastodon Kingoriidae Dicynodontoides Kombuisia Thliptosaurus Digalodon Emydopidae Compsodon Emydops Kistecephalia Myosauridae Myosaurus Cistecephalidae Sauroscaptor Kembawacela Cistecephalus Cistecephaloides Kawingasaurus

References

1. Kammerer, C.F.; Angielczyk, K.D. (2009). "A proposed higher taxonomy of anomodont therapsids" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2018: 1–24.
2. MacUngo, Zanildo; Benoit, Julien; Fernandez, Vincent; Araújo, Ricardo M N. (2023). "X-ray microcomputed and synchrotron tomographic analysis of the basicranial axis of emydopoid dicynodonts: Implications for fossoriality and phylogeny". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 198: 1–46. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac033.