Scincosauridae
| Scincosauridae Temporal range: Late Carboniferous | |
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| Life restoration of Scincosaurus crassus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | "Amphibia" (wide sense) |
| Subclass: | †Lepospondyli |
| Order: | †Nectridea |
| Family: | †Scincosauridae Jaeckel, 1909 |
The Scincosauridae are an extinct family of nectridean lepospondyl amphibians. It includes the genera Scincosaurus and Sauravus.[1] Unlike most other nectrideans, scincosaurids are thought to have been terrestrial.
References
- ↑ Marcello Ruta, Michael I. Coates and Donald L. J. Quicke (2003). "Early tetrapod relationships revisited" (PDF). Biological Reviews 78 (2): 251–345. doi:10.1017/S1464793102006103. PMID 12803423.
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