Pantylidae

Pantylidae
Temporal range: Lower Permian
Pantylus cordatus skull fossil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Microsauria
Clade: Recumbirostra
Family: Pantylidae
Case, 1911
Genera

Pantylidae is an extinct family of tetrapods of the group Recumbirostra.[1] It also often considered a sister-group to the family Tuditanidae.[2] The family contains two genera Pantylus and Stegotretus, while a third, Sparodus, is sometimes placed here as well.[3]

  1. ^ J. S. Anderson (2007). "Incorporating ontogeny into the matrix: A phylogenetic evaluation of developmental evidence for the origin of modern Amphibians. In J. S. Anderson, H.-D. Sues (eds.),". Major Transitions in Vertebrate Evolution: 182–227.
  2. ^ Marjanović, D.; Laurin, M. (2019). "Phylogeny of Paleozoic limbed vertebrates reassessed through revision and expansion of the largest published relevant data matrix". PeerJ. 6 (e5565).
  3. ^ Marjanović, D.; Laurin, M. (2008). "A reevaluation of the evidence supporting an unorthodox hypothesis on the origin of extant amphibians". Contributions to Zoology. 77 (3): 149–199.