Heylerosauridae

Heylerosaurids Temporal range: Middle Triassic–Late Triassic PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Skull of Eocyclotosaurus woschmidti
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	† Temnospondyli
Suborder:	† Stereospondyli
Clade:	† Capitosauria
Superfamily:	† Mastodonsauroidea
Family:	† Heylerosauridae Shishkin, 1980

Heylerosauridae is a family of mastodonsauroid temnospondyls. It was first named in 1980 to include the genera Odenwaldia and Quasicyclotosaurus . ^[1] In addition to these genera, the family now includes Eocyclotosaurus and Yuanansuchus . ^[2] Recent phylogenetic analyses have not found a close relationship between Odenwaldia and other heylerosaurids and place it outside the family. Heylerosaurids are generally regarded as the sister taxon of the stenotosaurids. ^[3]

References

1. Shishkin, M.A. (1980). "The Luzocephalidae, a new Triassic labyrinthodont family". Paleontological Journal. 14: 88–101.
2. Liu, J.; Wang, Y. (2005). "The first complete mastodonsauroid skull from the Triassic of China: Yuanansuchus laticeps gen. et sp. nov". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 25 (3): 725–728. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0725:tfcmsf]2.0.co;2.
3. Josep Fortuny, Àngel Galobart and Carles De Santisteban (2011). "A new capitosaur from the Middle Triassic of Spain and the relationships within the Capitosauria" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 56. doi: 10.4202/app.2010.0025 . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-22. Retrieved 2011-04-18.

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