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Zatracheidae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	37053	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=37053

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Zatracheidae

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	Zatracheidae	Williston 1910

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Zatracheidae	family	belongs to Rachitomi	stated with evidence	Watson, 1919
Zatracheidae	family	belongs to Eryopoidea	stated without evidence	Paton, 1975
Zatracheidae	family	belongs to Eryopoidea	implied	Carroll, 1988
Zatracheidae	family	belongs to Eryopoidea	stated without evidence	Boy, 1989
Zatracheidae	family	belongs to Temnospondyli	stated without evidence	Boy, 1990
Zatracheidae	family	belongs to Eryopoidea	stated without evidence	Yates and Warren, 2000
Zatracheidae	family	belongs to Rhachitomi	stated with evidence	Schoch, 2013
Zatracheidae	family	belongs to Olsoniformes	stated with evidence	Schoch and Milner, 2014

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

303 - 299 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)

R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Acanthostomatops ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian
Dasyceps ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	3	299 Ma Carboniferous	279 Ma Permian
Zatrachys ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	22	303 Ma Carboniferous	279 Ma Permian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1910	Zatracheidae Williston
1919	Zatrachydae Watson p. 66
1946	Zatrachydidae Kuhn p. 52
1975	Zatrachydidae Paton
1988	Zatracheidae Carroll
1989	Zatrachydidae Boy pp. 133, 135
1990	Zatrachydidae Boy p. 309
2000	Zatrachydidae Yates and Warren pp. 84, 87 fig. 1
2013	Zatracheidae Schoch
2014	Zatracheidae Schoch and Milner

References

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

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

Paton R. L. (1975) A Lower Permian temnospondylus amphibian from the English Midlands, Palaeontology 18 4, 831-845

Boy J. (1990) Über einige Vertreter der Eryopoidea (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) aus dem europäischen Rotliegend (?höchstes Karbon - Perm), 3. Onchiodon; (On some representatives of the Eryopoidea (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the European Rotliegend (?Uppermost Carboniferous - Permian), 3. Onchiodon), Paläontologische Zeitschrift 64 3/4, 287-312

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

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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