Tertremoides Temporal range: Lower Triassic | |
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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]