| Trematolestes Temporal range: Middle Triassic | |
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| Fossil, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | † Temnospondyli |
| Suborder: | † Stereospondyli |
| Family: | † Trematosauridae |
| Subfamily: | † Trematosaurinae |
| Genus: | † Trematolestes Schoch, 2006 |
| Type species | |
| †T. hagdorni Schoch, 2006 | |
Trematolestes is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Lower Keuper (Ladinian, Middle Triassic) of southern Germany. [1] It was first named by Rainer R. Schoch in 2006 and the type species is Trematolestes hagdorni. It is the first trematosaurid represented by a nearly complete skeleton. [1]
Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic position of Trematolestes, from Schoch (2006): [1]
