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Trematopidae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	123219	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=123219

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Trematopidae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Temnospondyli
-	Eutemnospondyli	Schoch 2013
-	Rhachitomi
-	Dissorophoidea
-	Xerodromes	Schoch and Milner 2014
-	Olsoniformes	Anderson et al. 2008
family	Trematopidae	Williston 1910

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Trematopidae	family	belongs to Rachitomi	stated with evidence	Watson, 1919
Trematopidae	family	belongs to Eryopoidea	implied	Carroll, 1988
Trematopidae	family	belongs to Dissorophoidea	implied	Sumida et al., 1998
Trematopidae	family	belongs to Dissorophoidea	stated without evidence	Yates and Warren, 2000
Trematopidae	family	belongs to Dissorophoidea	implied	Martens et al., 2005
Trematopidae	family	belongs to Olsoniformes	stated without evidence	Anderson et al., 2008
Trematopidae	family	belongs to Olsoniformes	stated with evidence	Bourget and Anderson, 2011

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

311 - 307 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

279 - 268 Ma
Permian

Environment

brackish,freshwater,terrestrial (based on Tetrapoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Temnospondyli)

Diet

carnivore (based on Olsoniformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

S. W. Williston. 1910. Cacops, Desmospondylus; new genera of Permian vertebrates. Geological Society America Bulletin 21:249-284

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Acheloma ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	6	296 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Actiobates ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	306 Ma Carboniferous	306 Ma Carboniferous
Anconastes ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	306 Ma Carboniferous	306 Ma Carboniferous
Ecolsonia ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	3	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian
Fedexia ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	303 Ma Carboniferous	303 Ma Carboniferous
Mordex ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	3	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Phonerpeton ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	2	296 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Rotaryus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Tambachia ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1910	Trematopsidae Williston p. 278
1919	Trematopsidae Watson p. 65
1946	Trematopsidae Kuhn p. 52
1988	Trematopsidae Carroll
1998	Trematopidae Sumida et al. p. 610
2000	Trematopidae Yates and Warren pp. 84, 86 fig. 1

Year	Name and Author
2005	Trematopidae Martens et al.
2008	Trematopidae Anderson et al. p. 70 fig. 9
2011	Trematopidae Bourget and Anderson p. 45
2011	Trematopidae Polley and Reisz p. 792
2013	Trematopidae Schoch
2014	Trematopidae Schoch and Milner

References

Williston S. W. (1910) Cacops, Desmospondylus; new genera of Permian vertebrates, Geological Society America Bulletin 21, 249-284

Watson D. M. S. (1919) The structure, evolution and origin of the Amphibia.—The "orders" Rachitomi and Stereospondyli, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 209, 1-73

Kuhn O. (1946) Das System der fossilen und rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien [The system of fossil and recent amphibians and reptiles], Bericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bamberg 29, 49-67

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Sumida S. S., Berman D. S., et al (1998) A New Trematopid Amphibian from the Lower Permian of Central Germany, Palaeontology 41 4, 605-629

Yates A. M., Warren A. (2000) The phylogeny of the ‘higher’ temnospondyls (Vertebrata: Choanata) and its implications for the monophyly and origins of the Stereospondyli, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 128 1, 77-121

Martens T., Berman D. S., et al (2005) The Bromacker Quarry - the Most Important Locality of Lower Permian Terrestrial Vertebrate Fossils Outside of North America, The Nonmarine Permian. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 30, 214-215

Anderson J. S., Henrici A. C., et al (2008) Georgenthalia clavinasica, a new genus and species of dissorophoid temnospondyl from the Early Permian of Germany, and the relationships of the family Amphibamidae, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 1, 61-75

Bourget H., Anderson J. S. (2011) A new amphibamid (Temnospondyli: Dissorophoidea) from the Early Permian of Texas, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31 1, 32-49 doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.539652

Polley B. P., Reisz R. R. (2011) A new Lower Permian trematopid (Temnospondyli: Dissorophoidea) from Richards Spur, Oklahoma, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161, 789-815

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

Schoch R. R., Milner A. R. (2014) Handbook of Paleoherpetology Part 3A2 Temnospondyli I

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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