Emydopoidea Temporal range: Late Permian - Middle Triassic
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Restoration of the emydopoid Myosaurus gracilis | |
Scientific classification | |
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]
Below is a cladogram modified from Macungo et al. (2022) showing the phylogenetic relationships of emydopoids:[2]
Emydopoidea |
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