| Archegosauroids Temporal range: Pennsylvanian to Late Permian, | |
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| Prionosuchus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Clade: | †Stereospondylomorpha |
| Superfamily: | †Archegosauroidea Lydekker, 1885 |
| Families | |
Archegosauroidea is an extinct superfamily of Permian temnospondyls. The superfamily is assigned to the clade Stereospondylomorpha and is the sister taxon to the suborder Stereospondyli.[1] It includes the families Actinodontidae and Archegosauridae, and possibly the genus Intasuchus, which is placed within the monotypic family Intasuchidae. They were fully aquatic animals, and were metabolically and physiologically more similar to fish than modern amphibians.[2]
Gallery
Intasuchus silvicola, of the early Permian of Russia
Cheliderpeton vranyi, of the early Permian of the Czech Republic
Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi, a platyoposaurine archegosaurid of the middle Permian of Russia
References
- ↑ Yates, A. M.; Warren, A. A. (2000). "The phylogeny of the "higher temnospondyls" (Vertebrata, Choanata)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 128: 77–121. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb00650.x.
- ↑ Florian Witzmann; Elizabeth Brainerd (2017). "Modeling the physiology of the aquatic temnospondyl Archegosaurus decheni from the early Permian of Germany". Fossil Record. 20 (2): 105–127. doi:10.5194/fr-20-105-2017.
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