Tertremoides

Tertremoides
Temporal range: Lower Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Amphibia
Order:
Temnospondyli
Infraorder:
Trematosauria
Superfamily:
Trematosauroidea
Family:
Trematosauridae
Genus:
Tertremoides

Lehman, 1979
Species
  • T. ambilobensis Lehman, 1979 (type)

Tertremoides is an extinct genus of trematosaurian temnospondyl within the family Trematosauridae from Madagascar.[1] It was first named by Lehman, J-P. in 1966 as Trematosaurus madagascariensis but renamed to Tertremoides ambilobensis by Lehman in 1979.[1] Its closest relative was Trematolestes.[2]

Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic position of Tertremoides, from Schoch (2006):[2]

  1. ^ a b Lehman, J-P. (1979). "Nouveaux Trematosaures de madagascar, les Stegocephales Malgaches et leur Paleoecologie". Annales de Paléontologie (Vertébrés). 65 (1): 35–53.
  2. ^ a b Rainer R. Schoch (2006). "A Complete Trematosaurid Amphibian From The Middle Triassic Of Germany". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26 (1): 29–43. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[29:ACTAFT]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 85829091.