†superfamily Brachyopoidea Lydekker 1885 (tetrapod)

Amphibia - Temnospondyli

Alternative spelling: Brachiopoidea

Parent taxon: Stereospondyli according to R. R. Schoch 2013

See also Carroll 1988, Hart et al. 2023, Olson and Lammers 1976, Warren and Damiani 1999, Warren and Marsicano 2000 and Yates and Warren 2000

Sister taxa: Arachana, Boreosaurus, Boreosaurus thorslundi, Brachyopomorpha, Capulomala, Chinlestegophis, Cryobatrachus, Cryobatrachus kitchingi, Diadetognathus, Diadetognathus varvicensis, Kryostega, Labyrinthodon panchetensis, Laccocephalus, Laccocephalus insperatus, Mastodonsaurus andriani, Mastodonsaurus fuerstenberganus, Mastodonsaurus indicus, Mastodonsaurus meyeri, Pachygonia, Pachygonia incurvata, Peltobatrachus, Plagiosauroidea, Rhinesuchidae, Rhytidostea, Superstes

Subtaxa: Austropelor Austropelor wadleyi Brachyopidae Chigutisauridae Hadrokkosaurus Plagiosauridae

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Type: Brachyops

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections)

• Miocene of Italy (1)

• Cretaceous of Australia (6), China (1)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Thailand (1)

• Jurassic of Australia (2), China (4), Kyrgyzstan (5), Lesotho (1), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (3)

• Triassic of Algeria (1), Antarctica (2), Argentina (3), Australia (16), Brazil (2), France (2), Germany (22), Greenland (4), India (2), Kazakhstan (2), Luxembourg (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (14), South Africa (8), Sweden (1), United States (2: Arizona), Zambia (1)

• Permian to Triassic of Australia (1)

Total: 114 collections including 130 occurrences

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