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Eureptilia: Captorhinomorpha: Classification

Abreviated Dendrogram
Amniota ├─Synapsida └─┬─Anapsida │ └─Eureptilia ├─Coelostegus └─┬─┬─Thuringothyris │ └─Captorhinidae │ ├─Concordia │ └─┬─Romeria │ └─┬─Captorhinus │ └─Moradisaurinae └─┬─Brouffia └─Romeriida ├─Paleothyris └─┬─Hylonomus └─┬─Protorothyrididae └─Diapsida
Contents

Overview
Eureptilia
Captorhinidae
Protorothyrididae
Classification
Dendrogram
References

The following rather hasty classification scheme uses Linnean taxonomy and is modified from Carroll 1988, For the cladistic equivalent, see the dendrogram page MAK120317

Subclass Anapsida Osborn, 1903 (= Anapsida Williston, 1917) [1] Order Captorhinomorpha Carroll & Baird, 1972 [2] primitive, lizard-like Permo-Carboniferous reptiles Family Protorothyrididae Price, 1937 primitive persistantly conservative lizard-like types, Mid Carb to Early Perm, Eur & N Am Family Captorhinidae Case, 1911 small to large insectivorous to herbivourous forms with triangular heads and downturned premaxillae, Late Carb to Late Perm of N Am, EEur, Afr, EAs Subfamily "Captorhininae" paraphyletic assemblage of small, primitive, mainly single-tooth-rowed forms which resemble other generalized amniotes, Late Carb to Late Perm of N Am, EEur, Afr Subfamily Moradisaurinae Ricqlès and Taquet 1982 large, highly derived, herbivorous forms, Mid to Late Perm of N Am, EEur, Afr, EAs

Notes

[1] as paraphyletic stem taxon sensu Carroll, not a monophyletic clade sensu Gauthier, Resiz, etc. Replaces the "Cotylosauria" of Romer, Colbert, etc

[2] Carroll's doubly paraphyletic Captorhinida is here rejected; and the families Bolosauridae and Acleistorhinidae previously included under the Captorhinomorpha are included under the Anapsida proper

page MAK120317