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Pantylidae

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Pantylidae
Temporal range: Lower Permian
Pantylus cordatus skull fossil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Microsauria
Clade: Recumbirostra
Family: Pantylidae
Case, 1911
Genera

Pantylidae is an extinct family of lepospondyl amphibians and often considered a sister-group to the family Tuditanidae.[1] The family contains two genera Pantylus and Stegotretus, while a third, Sparodus, is sometimes placed here as well.[2]

References

  1. ^ Marjanović, D.; Laurin, M. (2019). "Phylogeny of Paleozoic limbed vertebrates reassessed through revision and expansion of the largest published relevant data matrix". PeerJ. 6 (e5565).
  2. ^ Marjanović, D.; Laurin, M. (2008). "A reevaluation of the evidence supporting an unorthodox hypothesis on the origin of extant amphibians". Contributions to Zoology. 77 (3): 149–199.