Biology:Gephyrosauridae

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Short description: Extinct family of reptiles

Gephyrosauridae
Temporal range: Late Triassic - Early Jurassic, 201.5–195 Ma
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Life restoration of Gephyrosaurus bridensis
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Reconstruction of the skull of Gephyrosaurus in lateral view
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Rhynchocephalia
Family: Gephyrosauridae
Evans, 1980
Type species
Gephyrosaurus bridensis
Evans, 1980
Genera

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. 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Paleobiology Database
  2. 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. 
  3. 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