Eryopoidea

Eryopoidea
Temporal range:
Pennsylvanian - Permian, 300–272.5 Ma
Life restoration of Eryops megacephalus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Temnospondyli
Suborder: †Euskelia
Superfamily: †Eryopoidea
Cope, 1882
Families

Eryopoidea is a clade of late Carboniferous and Permian temnospondyl amphibians, known from North America and Europe. Carroll (1998) includes no fewer than ten families,[1] but Yates and Warren (2000) replaced this with a cladistic approach that includes three closely-related families, the Eryopidae, Parioxyidae and Zatrachydidae.[2] They define the Eryopoidea as all members of Euskelia in which the choana are relatively rounded and the iliac blade is vertical. A similar definition (without specifically naming Euskelia) is provided by Laurin and Steyer (2000).[3]

  1. ^ Carroll, R. L. (1988). Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. W.H. Freeman & Co. ISBN 0-7167-1822-7.
  2. ^ Yates, A. M. & Warren, A. A. (2000). "The phylogeny of the 'higher' temnospondyls (Vertebrata: Choanata) and its implications for the monophyly and origins of the Stereospondyli". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 128 (1): 77–121. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb00650.x.
  3. ^ Laurin. M & Steyer, J-S (2000). "Phylogeny and Apomorphies of Temnospondyls - Tree of Life project".