Eutemnospondyli

Eutemnospondyli Temporal range: Early Carboniferous - Early Cretaceous, 330–120 Ma Possible descendant taxon Lissamphibia survives to present. PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Clade:	†Eutemnospondyli Schoch, 2013
Genera
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Eutemnospondyli (meaning "true Temnospondyli") is a clade of temnospondyl amphibians that includes most temnospondyls except edopoids. Eutemnospondyli was named by German paleontologist Rainer R. Schoch in 2013. He defined it as a stem-based taxon including all temnospondyls more closely related to Stereospondyli than to Edopoidea. In his phylogenetic analysis, Eutemnospondyli included dendrerpetontids and a clade he referred to as Rhachitomi. Rhachitomi is defined to include four major and well-supported clades of temnospondyls: Dvinosauria, Eryopidae, Stereospondyli and a clade formed by Zatracheidae and Dissorophoidea. Below is a cladogram from Schoch's analysis:^[1]

Temnospondyli	Edopoidea Eutemnospondyli "Dendrerpetontidae" Rhachitomi Dvinosauria Zatracheidae Dissorophoidea Eryopiformes Eryopidae Stereospondylomorpha Sclerocephalus Glanochthon Archegosaurus Australerpeton Stereospondyli Rhinesuchidae Lydekkerina Capitosauria Trematosauria

References

1. Schoch, R. R. (2013). "The evolution of major temnospondyl clades: An inclusive phylogenetic analysis". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology: 1–0. doi:10.1080/14772019.2012.699006.