Extinct superfamily of dicynodonts
Emydopoidea
Temporal range: Late Permian - Middle Triassic |
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Restoration of the emydopoid Myosaurus gracilis |
Scientific classification |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Suborder: | †Anomodontia |
Clade: | †Dicynodontia |
Clade: | †Therochelonia |
Superfamily: | †Emydopoidea Cluver and King, 1983 |
Subgroups |
- Digalodon
- Rastodon
- Thliptosaurus
- Cistecephalidae
- Emydopidae
- Kingoriidae
- Myosauridae
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Emydopoidea is a group of Late Permian dicynodont therapsids. It includes the small-bodied Emydops, Myosaurus, and kingoriids, and the burrowing cistecephalids.[1]
Phylogeny
Below is a cladogram modified from Macungo et al. (2022) showing the phylogenetic relationships of emydopoids:[2]
References
- ^ Kammerer, C.F.; Angielczyk, K.D. (2009). "A proposed higher taxonomy of anomodont therapsids" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2018: 1–24.
- ^ MacUngo, Zanildo; Benoit, Julien; Fernandez, Vincent; Araújo, Ricardo M N. (2023). "X-ray microcomputed and synchrotron tomographic analysis of the basicranial axis of emydopoid dicynodonts: Implications for fossoriality and phylogeny". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 198: 1–46. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac033.
Taxon identifiers |
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Emydopoidea | |
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