Lapillopsidae

Lapillopsidae
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Restoration of Lapillopsis nana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Tetrapoda
Order: †Temnospondyli
Suborder: †Stereospondyli
Family: †Lapillopsidae
Genera

Lapillopsidae is an extinct family of temnospondyls.

Lapillopsis was found as the sister to Rotaurisaurus in a 1999 analysis that found the Lapillopsidae as basal stereospondyls. Lapillopsis was found as a sister to Dissorophoidea by a 2017 analysis. Another relative of Lapillopsis, Manubrantlia was described from the Early Triassic of India, and Rhigerpeton was found in Antarctica.

References

  1. ↑ Yates, A. M. 1999. The Lapillopsidae: a new family of small temnospondyls from the Early Triassic of Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19: 302-320. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.1999.10011143
  2. ↑ Pardo, J. D., Small, B. J., Huttenlocker, A. K. 2017. Stem caecilian from the Triassic of Colorado sheds light on the origins of Lissamphibia. PNAS. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1706752114
  3. ↑ Yates & Sengupta, 2002. A lapillopsid temnospondyl from the Early Triassic of India. Alcheringa 26: 201-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115510208619252
  4. ↑ Gee, Bryan M.; Beightol, Charles V.; Sidor, Christian A. (2023-06-28). "A new lapillopsid from Antarctica and a reappraisal of the phylogenetic relationships of early diverging stereospondyls". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. doi:10.1080/02724634.2023.2216260. ISSN 0272-4634.