Mastodonsaurids Temporal range: Triassic
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Skull of Heptasaurus cappelensis | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Temnospondyli |
Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
Clade: | †Capitosauria |
Superfamily: | †Mastodonsauroidea |
Family: | †Mastodonsauridae Lydekker, 1885 |
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Mastodonsauridae is a family of capitosauroid temnospondyls. Fossils belonging to this family have been found in North America, Greenland, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The family Capitosauridae is synonymous with Mastodonsauridae.