Metoposauroidea

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Metoposauroids
Temporal range: Triassic, 237–208  Ma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order:† Temnospondyli
Suborder:† Stereospondyli
Clade:† Trematosauria
Superfamily:† Metoposauroidea
Watson, 1919
Subgroups

Metoposauroidea is an extinct superfamily of temnospondyls that lived from the Middle to Upper Triassic in North America, Europe and North Africa. [1] Metoposauroidea includes the families Metoposauridae and Latiscopidae. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Brusatte, S. L., Butler R. J., Mateus O., & Steyer S. J. (2015). A new species of Metoposaurus from the Late Triassic of Portugal and comments on the systematics and biogeography of metoposaurid temnospondyls. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. e912988., 2015:
  2. ↑ http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Amphibia/Limnarchia/Metoposauroidea.htm Archived 2007-08-23 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 2007/12/16


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