| Tertremoides Temporal range: Lower Triassic | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | † Temnospondyli |
| Suborder: | † Stereospondyli |
| Family: | † Trematosauridae |
| Subfamily: | † Trematosaurinae |
| Genus: | † Tertremoides Lehman, 1979 |
| Type species | |
| †T. ambilobensis Lehman, 1979 | |
Tertremoides is an extinct genus of trematosaurian temnospondyl within the family Trematosauridae from Madagascar. [1] It was first named by Lehman, J-P. in 1966 as Trematosaurus madagascariensis but renamed to Tertremoides ambilobensis by Lehman in 1979. [1] Its closest relative was Trematolestes . [2]
Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic position of Tertremoides, from Schoch (2006): [2]