Phlegethontioidea
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| Fossil of Pseudophlegethontia turnbullorum in the Field Museum of Natural History. | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | "Amphibia" (wide sense) |
| Order: | †Aistopoda |
| Stem: | †Phlegethontioidea Anderson et al., 2003 |
Phlegethontioidea is a clade of aistopod amphibians including the families Phlegethontiidae and Pseudophlegethontiidae. It is a stem-based taxon defined in phylogenetic terms as all aistopods sharing a more recent common ancestor with Phlegethontia than Oestocephalus.[1]
References
- ^ Anderson, J.S.; Carroll, R.L.; and Rowe, T.B. (2003). "New information on Lethiscus stocki (Tetrapoda: Lepospondyli: Aistopoda) from high-resolution computed tomography and a phylogenetic analysis of Aistopoda". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 40 (8): 1071–1083. doi:10.1139/e03-023.
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