Mastodonsauroidea

Mastodonsauroids
Temporal range: 251.0–201.4 Ma Early Triassic - Middle Jurassic
Restoration of Paracyclotosaurus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Temnospondyli
Suborder: †Stereospondyli
Clade: †Capitosauria
Superfamily: †Mastodonsauroidea
Lydekker, 1885
Subgroups
Synonyms
  • Capitosauroidea
    Watson, 1919

The Mastodonsauroidea are an extinct superfamily of temnospondyl amphibians known from the Triassic. Fossils belonging to this superfamily have been found in North America, Greenland, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Ferganobatrachus from the Jurassic of Asia was initially assigned to this superfamily, but is now considered to be congeneric with the brachyopid Gobiops.[1]

References

  1. ^ Maisch, Michael; Matzke, Andreas (2005). "Temnospondyl amphibians from the Jurassic of the Southern Junggar Basin (NW China)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 79 (2). Springer-Verlag: 285–301. doi:10.1007/BF02990189. ISSN 0031-0220.
  • The Paleobiology Database
  • Moser, Markus& Schoch, Rainer 2007 "Revision of the type material and nomenclature of Mastodonsaurus giganteus (Jaeger) (Temnospondyli) from the middle Triassic of Germany" Palaeontology 505:1245-1266


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