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Abbreviated Cladogram

TETRAPODA
|--+--LEPOSPONDYLI
|  `--REPTILOMORPHA
|
Temnospondyli
|--Edopoidea 
`--+--Euskelia
   |  `--LISSAMPHIBIA
   `--Limnarchia
      |--Dvinosauria
      `--Stereospondyli
         |--Rhinesuchidae
         `--+--Capitosauria
            `--Trematosauria
               |--Trematosauroidea
               `--+--Metoposauroidea
                  `--+--Plagiosauroidea
                     `--+--Rhytidosteidae
                        `--Brachyopoidea 

Contents

160.000 Overview
160.100 Temnospondyli
160.200 Limnarchia
160.300 Rhinesuchids & Capitosaurs
160.400 Trematosauroidea
160.500 Trematosauria (2)
Cladogram
References


References


Anderson, HM & JM Anderson (1970), A preliminary review of the biostratigraphy of the Uppermost Permian, Triassic, and Lowermost Jurassic of Gondwanaland. Paleontol. Afr. 13(suppl.): 1-22. Uranocentradon.

Anderson, JM & ARI Cruikshank (1978), The Biostratigraphy of the Permian and Triassic, Part 5, a review of the classification and distribution of Permo-Triassic Tetrapods, Paleontol. Afr. 21: 15-44. Laccocephalus

Bolt, JR & S Chatterjee (2000), A new temnospondyl amphibian from the Late Triassic of Texas. J. Paleontol. 74: 670-683.

Carroll, RL (1988), Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, WH Freeman & Co., 698 pp. Laccocephalus; Metoposauroidea; Overview, Rhinesuchidae, Trematosauroidea

Damiani, RJ (2001), A systematic revision and phylogenetic analysis of Triassic mastodonsauroids (Temnospondyli: Stereospondyli). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 133: 379-482. Angusaurus, Thoosuchinae, Thoosuchus, Trematosauridae, Trematosauroidea, Trematosaurus, Yarengia.

Milner, AR (1980), The Tetrapod assemblage from Nyrany, Czechoslovakia, in AL Panchen (ed.), The Terrestrial Environment and the Origin of Land Vertebrates. Academic Press: pp.439-496. Cochleosauridae; Edopoidea

Milner, A.R. 1994, Late Triassic and Jurassic amphibians: fossil record and phylogeny, pp.5-22 in Fraser & Sues (eds.) In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Plagiosauridae.

Müller, AH (1968), Lehrbuch der Paläozoologie, vol.II part 1 (Vertebrates). Rhinesuchidae.

Nilsson, T. (1946), A new find of Gerrothorax rhaeticus Nilsson a plagiosaurid from the Rhaetic of Scania. Lunds Univ. Årsskr. N.F.(2) 42(10). Plagiosauridae.

Pough, FH, CM Janis & JB Heiser (1999), Vertebrate Life (5th ed.), Prentice Hall, 733+ pp. Trematosauroidea.

Romer, AS (1947) Vertebrate Paleontology, (3rd ed.1966) Univ. Chicago Press. Uranocentradon.

Shishkin, MA, IV Novikov & YM Gubin (2000), Permian and Triassic temnospondyls from Russia in MJ Benton, MA Shishkin, DM Unwin & EN Kurochkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Cambridge Univ. Press, pp. 35-59. Angusaurus, Inflectosaurus, Luzocephalidae, Prothoosuchus, Thoosuchus, Trematosauridae, Trematosauroidea, Yarengia.

Shishkin, MA & Rubridge, BS (2000), A relict rhinesuchid (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the Lower Triassic of South Africa. Palaeontology 43: 653-670. Broomistega.

Steyer, JS (2000), Ontogeny and phylogeny in temnospondyls: a new method of analysis. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 130: 449-467. Temnospondyli.

Steyer, JS (2002), The first articulated trematosaur "amphibian" from the Lower Triassic of Madagascar: implications for the phylogeny of the groupPalaeontology 45: 771-793. WWWAngusaurus, Inflectosaurus, Luzocephalidae, Trematosauridae, Trematosaurus.

von Zittel, KA (1932), Textbook of Paleontology, CR Eastman (transl. and ed), 2nd edition, vol.2, Macmillan & Co. Rhinesuchus; Uranocentradon.

Warren, AA (1985), Triassic Australian plagiosauroid. J. Paleontol. 59: 236-241. Plagiosauridae.

Warren, AA (1995), Plagiosternum granulosum E. Fraas: a plagiosaurid temnospondyl from the Middle Triassic of Crailsheim, Germany. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Ser. B #229. 8 pp. Plagiosauridae.

Warren, AA (1998), Laidleria uncovered: a redescription of Laidleria gracilis Kitching (1957), a temnospondyl from the Cynognathus Zone of South Africa. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 122: 167-185. Laidleria; Plagiosauridae; Plagiosauroidea.

Warren, AA & L Davey (1992), Folded teeth in temnospondyls -- a preliminary study. Alcheringa 16: 107-132. Plagiosauridae.

Warren, AA & C Marsicano (2000), A phylogeny of the Brachyopoidea (Temnospondyli, Stereospondyli). J. Vert. Paleontol. 20: 462-483. Cladogram, Plagiosauridae

Yates, AM (1999), The Lapillopsidae: a new family of small temnospondyls from the Early Triassic of Australia. J. Vert. Paleontol. 19: 302-320. Cladogram; Stereospondyli.

Yates, AM (2000), A new tiny rhytidosteid (Temnospondyli: Stereospondyi) from the Early Triassic of Australia and the possibility of hidden temnospondyl diversityJ. Vert Paleontol. 20:484-489. Rhytidosteidae.

Yates, AM & AA Warren (2000), The phylogeny of the 'higher' temnospondyls (Vertebrata: Choanata) and its implications for the monophyly and origins of the Stereospondyli. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 128: 77-121. Cladogram; Laidleria; Limnarchia; Luzocephalidae; Metoposauroidea, Overview, Plagiosauridae; Plagiosauroidea;  Temnospondyli; Thoosuchinae; Thoosuchus, Trematosauria, Trematosauridae, Trematosauroidea
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