Biology:Emydopoidea

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Short description: Extinct superfamily of dicynodonts

Emydopoidea
Temporal range: Late Permian - Middle Triassic
Myosaurus.jpg
Restoration of the emydopoid Myosaurus gracilis
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Suborder: Anomodontia
Clade: Dicynodontia
Clade: Therochelonia
Superfamily: Emydopoidea
Cluver and King, 1983
Subgroups

Emydopoidea is a group of Late Permian dicynodont therapsids. It includes the small-bodied Emydops, Myosaurus, and kingoriids, and the burrowing cistecephalids.[1]

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram modified from Macungo et al. (2022) showing the phylogenetic relationships of emydopoids:[2]

Emydopoidea

Rastodon

Kingoriidae

Dicynodontoides

Kombuisia

Thliptosaurus

Digalodon

Emydopidae

Compsodon

Emydops

Kistecephalia
Myosauridae

Myosaurus

Cistecephalidae

Sauroscaptor

Kembawacela

Cistecephalus

Cistecephaloides

Kawingasaurus

References

  1. Kammerer, C.F.; Angielczyk, K.D. (2009). "A proposed higher taxonomy of anomodont therapsids". Zootaxa 2018: 1–24. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/z02018p024f.pdf. 
  2. MacUngo, Zanildo; Benoit, Julien; Fernandez, Vincent; Araújo, Ricardo M N. (2023). "X-ray microcomputed and synchrotron tomographic analysis of the basicranial axis of emydopoid dicynodonts: Implications for fossoriality and phylogeny". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 198: 1–46. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac033. 

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