Biology:Gephyrosauridae
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Short description: Extinct family of reptiles
Gephyrosauridae | |
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Life restoration of Gephyrosaurus bridensis | |
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Reconstruction of the skull of Gephyrosaurus in lateral view | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Rhynchocephalia |
Family: | †Gephyrosauridae Evans, 1980 |
Type species | |
†Gephyrosaurus bridensis Evans, 1980
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Gephyrosauridae is an extinct family of rhynchocephalians that lived in the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic.[1] They are generally considered to be rhynchocephalians that lie outside of Sphenodontia, but in some analyses they are recovered as more closely related to squamates than to sphenodontians.[3]
Distribution
Members of Gephyrosauridae are known from the United Kingdom , and Switzerland .[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Paleobiology Database
- ↑ David I. Whiteside, FLS; Christopher J. Duffin, FLS (2017). "Late Triassic terrestrial microvertebrates from Charles Moore's "Microlestes" quarry, Holwell, Somerset, UK". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 179 (3): 677–705. doi:10.1111/zoj.12458.
- ↑ Simões, Tiago R.; Caldwell, Michael W.; Pierce, Stephanie E. (December 2020). "Sphenodontian phylogeny and the impact of model choice in Bayesian morphological clock estimates of divergence times and evolutionary rates" (in en). BMC Biology 18 (1): 191. doi:10.1186/s12915-020-00901-5. ISSN 1741-7007. PMID 33287835.
Wikidata ☰ Q745322 entry
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