†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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