Trilophosauridae
Trilophosauridae | |
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Mounted skeleton of Trilophosaurus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
Clade: | †Allokotosauria |
Order: | †Trilophosauria Romer , 1956
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Family: | †Trilophosauridae Gregory , 1945
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Genera | |
Synonyms | |
Teraterpetidae Sues, 2003 |
Trilophosaurs are lizard-like
The skull is also unusual in that the lower
Trilophosaurs are so far known only from the Late Triassic of North America and Europe.
Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic relationships of Trilophosauridae within Archosauromorpha as recovered by Nesbitt et al. (2015).[3]
Sauria |
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References
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- ^ Carroll, R. L. (1988). Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. New York: W.H. Freeman & Co. p. 266.
- ISSN 0003-0090.
Sources
- Benton, M. J.(2000), Vertebrate Paleontology, 2nd ed. Blackwell Science Ltd, p. 144
External links
- Archosauromorpha: Rhynchosaurs and Trilophosaurus at Palaeos
- Trilophosauria. Beaked, lizard-like reptiles. UC Museum of Paleontology. Archive copy from 6 February 2019.