Emydopoidea
Emydopoidea is a group of Late Permian dicynodont therapsids. It includes the small-bodied Emydops, Myosaurus, and kingoriids, and the burrowing cistecephalids.[1]
| Emydopoidea Temporal range: Late Permian - Middle Triassic | |
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| Restoration of the emydopoid Myosaurus gracilis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Anomodontia |
| Clade: | †Dicynodontia |
| Clade: | †Therochelonia |
| Superfamily: | †Emydopoidea Cluver and King, 1983 |
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Phylogeny
Below is a cladogram modified from Macungo et al. (2022) showing the phylogenetic relationships of emydopoids:[2]
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References
- Kammerer, C.F.; Angielczyk, K.D. (2009). "A proposed higher taxonomy of anomodont therapsids" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2018: 1–24.
- MacUngo, Zanildo; Benoit, Julien; Fernandez, Vincent; Araújo, Ricardo M N. (2023). "X-ray microcomputed and synchrotron tomographic analysis of the basicranial axis of emydopoid dicynodonts: Implications for fossoriality and phylogeny". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 198: 1–46. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac033.
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