Emydopoidea
Emydopoidea is a group of Late Permian dicynodont therapsids. It includes the small-bodied Emydops, Myosaurus, and kingoriids, and the burrowing cistecephalids.[1] Below is a cladogram from Kammerer et al. (2011) showing the phylogenetic relationships of emydopoids:[2]
Therochelonia |
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Emydopoidea Temporal range: Late Permian - Middle Triassic | |
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Restoration of the emydopoid Myosaurus gracilis | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | †Dicynodontia |
Clade: | †Therochelonia |
Superfamily: | †Emydopoidea Cluver and King, 1983 |
Subgroups | |
See text. |
References
- Kammerer, C.F.; Angielczyk, K.D. (2009). "A proposed higher taxonomy of anomodont therapsids" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2018: 1–24.
- Kammerer, C.F.; Angielczyk, K.D.; Fröbisch, J. (2011). "A comprehensive taxonomic revision of Dicynodon (Therapsida, Anomodontia) and its implications for dicynodont phylogeny, biogeography, and biostratigraphy". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (Suppl. 1): 1–158. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.627074.
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