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Metoposauroidea (disused)

Amphibia - Temnospondyli

Taxonomy
Metoposauroidea was named by Watson (1919) [nom. transl. ex Metoposauridae Watson 1919]. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Stereospondylida by Kuhn (1971); to Temnospondyli by Carroll (1988), Murry (1989) and Long and Murry (1995); and to Trematosauria by Yates and Warren (2000).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1919Metoposauroidea Watson
1971Metoposauroidea Kuhn p. 8
1988Metoposauroidea Carroll
1989Metoposauroidea Murry p. 271
1995Metoposauroidea Long and Murry
2000Metoposauroidea Yates and Warren pp. 84, 100 fig. 1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
—Eutemnospondyli
—Rhachitomi()
—Eryopiformes
—Stereospondylomorpha
—Stereospondyli()
—Superstes
—Trematosauria
superfamilyMetoposauroidea
superfamilyMetoposauroidea

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Superfm. †Metoposauroidea Watson 1919
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Diagnosis
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