Lapillopsidae

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Lapillopsidae
Temporal range: Early Triassic
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Restoration of Lapillopsis nana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Stereospondyli
Family: Lapillopsidae
Genera

Lapillopsidae is an extinct family of temnospondyls.

Lapillopsis was found as the sister to Rotaurisaurus in a 1999 analysis that found the Lapillopsidae as basal stereospondyls. [1] Lapillopsis was found as a sister to Dissorophoidea by a 2017 analysis. [2] Another relative of Lapillopsis, Manubrantlia was described from the Early Triassic of India, [3] and Rhigerpeton was found in Antarctica. [4]

References

  1. Yates, A. M. 1999. The Lapillopsidae: a new family of small temnospondyls from the Early Triassic of Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19: 302-320. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.1999.10011143
  2. Pardo, J. D., Small, B. J., Huttenlocker, A. K. 2017. Stem caecilian from the Triassic of Colorado sheds light on the origins of Lissamphibia. PNAS. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1706752114
  3. Yates & Sengupta, 2002. A lapillopsid temnospondyl from the Early Triassic of India. Alcheringa 26: 201-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115510208619252
  4. Gee, Bryan M.; Beightol, Charles V.; Sidor, Christian A. (2023-06-28). "A new lapillopsid from Antarctica and a reappraisal of the phylogenetic relationships of early diverging stereospondyls". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. doi:10.1080/02724634.2023.2216260. ISSN   0272-4634.