Tertremoides
| Tertremoides Temporal range: Lower Triassic | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Temnospondyli |
| Infraorder: | Trematosauria |
| Superfamily: | Trematosauroidea |
| Family: | Trematosauridae |
| Genus: | Tertremoides Lehman, 1979 |
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Tertremoides is an extinct genus of trematosaurian temnospondyl within the family Trematosauridae from Madagascar.[1] It was first named by Lehman, J-P. in 1966 as Trematosaurus madagascariensis but renamed to Tertremoides ambilobensis by Lehman in 1979.[1] Its closest relative was Trematolestes.[2]
Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic position of Tertremoides, from Schoch (2006):[2]
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See also
References
- 1 2 Lehman, J-P. (1979). "Nouveaux Trematosaures de madagascar, les Stegocephales Malgaches et leur Paleoecologie". Annales de Paléontologie (Vertébrés). 65 (1): 35–53.
- 1 2 Rainer R. Schoch (2006). "A Complete Trematosaurid Amphibian From The Middle Triassic Of Germany". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26 (1): 29–43. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[29:ACTAFT]2.0.CO;2.
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