Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Lydekkerinidae

Full reference: M. A. Shishkin, B. S. Rubidge, and J. W. Kitching. 1996. A new lydekkerinid (Amphibia, Temnospondyli) from the lower Triassic of South Africa: implications for evolution of the early capitosauroid cranial pattern. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 351:1635-1659

Parent taxon: Lydekkerinidae according to R. Schoch and A. R. Milner 2000

See also Damiani and Rubidge 2003 and Shishkin et al. 1996

Sister taxa: Chomatobatrachus, Deltacephalus, Indobenthosuchus, Indobenthosuchus panchetensis, Luzocephalus, Lydekkerina, Lydekkerina panchetensis

Subtaxa: Eolydekkerina magna

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Type: Eolydekkerina magna

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at Farm Fairydale, Bethulie (Triassic of South Africa)

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