Scincosauridae

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Scincosauridae
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous
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Life restoration of Scincosaurus crassus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Clade: Tetrapodomorpha
Order:† Nectridea
Family:† Scincosauridae
Jaeckel, 1909

The Scincosauridae are an extinct family of nectridean tetrapodomorphs. It includes the genera Scincosaurus and Sauravus . [1] Unlike most other nectrideans, scincosaurids are thought to have been terrestrial.

References

  1. ↑ Marcello Ruta, Michael I. Coates and Donald L. J. Quicke (2003). "Early tetrapod relationships revisited" (PDF). Biological Reviews. 78 (2): 251–345. doi:10.1017/S1464793102006103. PMID   12803423. S2CID   31298396. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-05-22. Retrieved 2012-03-03.