†family Brachystelechidae Carroll and Gaskill 1978 (amniote)

Osteichthyes - Recumbirostra - Brachystelechidae

Synonym: Batropetidae Carroll 1988

Full reference: R. L. Carroll and P. Gaskill. 1978. The Order Microsauria. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 126:1-211

Parent taxon: Recumbirostra according to A. K. Huttenlocker et al. 2013

See also Carroll 1988, Carroll 1991, Carroll et al. 1998 and Carroll and Gaskill 1978

Sister taxa: Aletrimyti, Dvellecanus, Gymnarthridae, Huskerpeton, Joermungandr, Lysorophia, Molgophidae, Ostodolepidae, Pantylidae, Proxilodon, Steenerpeton

Subtaxa: Batropetes Bromerpeton Carrolla Diabloroter Quasicaecilia

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Permian of Germany (7 collections), United States (2: Texas)

• Carboniferous of United States (1: Illinois)

Total: 10 collections including 12 occurrences

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