Metoposauroidea
| Metoposauroidea Temporal range: Triassic | |
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| Life restoration of Koskinonodon perfecta | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
| Clade: | †Trematosauria |
| Superfamily: | †Metoposauroidea Watson, 1919 |
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
- ↑ 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:
- ↑ http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Amphibia/Limnarchia/Metoposauroidea.htm Accessed 2007/12/16
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