Biology:List of Permian tetrapods

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Permian tetrapods were amphibians and reptiles that lived during the Permian Period. During this time, amphibians remained common, including various Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli. Synapsids became the dominant type of animal, represented by the Pelycosaurs during the Early Permian and Therapsids during the Middle and Late Permian, and distinguished by the appearance and possession of mammal-like characteristics (hence the old term "mammal-like reptiles"). These were accompanied by Anapsids or Parareptiles, which included both lizard-like and large herbivorous forms, and primitive diapsids.

Classification

The following list of families of Permian tetrapods is based mostly on Benton ed. 1993. The classification follows Benton 2004:

Superclass Tetrapoda

  • Order Aïstopoda
  • Family Phlegethontiidae
  • Order Microsauria
Orders/Suborders Uncertain
  • Family Leptorophidae
  • Family Enosuchidae
  • Family Nycleroleridae
  • Family Tokosauridae
  • Family Lanthanosuchidae
  • Family Tseajiidae

Series Amniota

  • Subclass Anapsida
  • Subclass Diapsida
  • Family Araeoscelididae
Orders unspecified
  • Family Paliguanidae
  • Order Prolacertiformes
  • Class Synapsida
  • Family Dromasauridae
  • Family Otsheriidae
  • Family Galeopidae
  • Family Venyukoviidae
  • Family Eodicynodontidae
  • Family Endothiodontidae
  • Family Cryptodontidae
  • Family Aulacephalodontidae
  • Family Dicynodontidae
  • Family Pristerodontidae
  • Family Emydopidae
  • Family Robertiidae
  • Family Kingoriidae
  • Family Pristerognathidae
  • Family Hofmeyeriidae
  • Family Euchambersiidae
  • Family Whaitsiidae
  • Family Ictidosuchidae
  • Family Scaloposauridae
  • Family Lycideopsidae

See also

  • List of Carboniferous tetrapods
  • List of Devonian tetrapods

References

  • Benton, M. J. (2004), Vertebrate Paleontology, 3rd ed. Blackwell Science Ltd
  • ----- (editor), (1993) The fossil record II. London: Chapman and Hall.