Micropholidae

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Micropholidae
Temporal range: Late CarboniferousLate Permian, 307.1–252 Ma
Possible descendant taxon Lissamphibia survives to present.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Tetrapoda
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Euskelia
Superfamily: Dissorophoidea
Clade: Amphibamiformes
Family: Micropholidae
Watson, 1919
Genera

The Micropholidae are an extinct family of dissorophoid temnospondyls known from Late Carboniferous to Early Triassic strata in the United States and South Africa.

Systematics

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Members of Micropholidae were historically included in Amphibamidae, but Schoch (2019) recovered Amphibamidae as paraphyletic, necessitating resurrection of Micropholidae for Micropholis and closely related taxa.[1][2][3][4]

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