| Source Data | |
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| Rank | unranked clade (PBDB) |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Capitosauroidea |
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Classification
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Capitosauroidea | superfamily | belongs to Stereospondylida | stated with evidence | Kuhn, 1971 | | Capitosauroidea | superfamily | belongs to Temnospondyli | implied | Carroll, 1988 | | Capitosauroidea | superfamily | belongs to Stereospondyli | stated with evidence | Schoch, 1999 | | Capitosauroidea | superfamily | belongs to Capitosauria | stated with evidence | Schoch and Milner, 2000 | | Capitosauroidea | superfamily | belongs to Temnospondyli | stated with evidence | Shishkin et al., 2000 | | Capitosauroidea | superfamily | belongs to Temnospondyli | stated without evidence | Schoch, 2000 | | Capitosauroidea | superfamily | subjective synonym of Mastodonsauroidea | stated with evidence | Damiani, 2001 | | Capitosauroidea | unranked clade | belongs to Capitosauria | stated with evidence | Schoch, 2013 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 108 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 252 - 251 Ma
Phanerozoic |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 209 - 201 Ma
Mesozoic |
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| Environment | brackish,freshwater,terrestrial (based on Tetrapoda) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Temnospondyli) |
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| Diet | carnivore (based on Temnospondyli) |
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| Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | D. M. S. Watson. 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 |
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| 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 |
| Sinclair W. J. (1917) A new labyrinthodont from the Triassic of Pennsylvania, American Journal of Science 256, 319-321 |
| Haughton S. H. (1925) Investigations in South African fossil reptiles and amphibians (Part 13), Annals of the South African Museum 22, 227-261 |
| Young C.-C. (1966) On the first discovery of capitosaurid from Sinkiang, Vertebrata PalAsiatica 10, 58-62 |
| Kuhn O. (1971) , Die Saurier der deutschen Trias [Reptiles of the German Triassic], 1-105 |
| Yang C. (1978) [A Late Triassic vertebrate fauna from Fukang, Sinkiang], Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica 13, 60-67 |
| Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698 |
| Schoch R. R. (1999) Comparative osteology of Mastodonsaurus giganteus (Jaeger, 1828) from the Middle Triassic (Lettenkeuper: Longobardian) of Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Thüringen), Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 278, 1-170 |
| Schoch R. R. (2000) The status and osteology of two new cyclotosaurid amphibians from the Upper Moenkopi Formation of Arizona (Amphibia: Temnospondyli; Middle Triassic), Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 216 3, 387-411 |
| Schoch R., Milner A. R. (2000) Stereospondyli, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie - Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 3B, 1-203 |
| Shishkin M. A., Novikov I. V., et al (2000) Permian and Triassic temnospondyls from Russia, The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 35-59 |
| 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 |
| Damiani R. J. (2001) A systematic revision and phylogenetic analysis of Triassic mastodonsauroids (Temnospondyli: Stereospondyli), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 133 4, 379-482 doi:10.1006/zjls.2001.0304 |
| Wang Y., Guilin G., et al (2008) Tetrapoda, The Chinese Fossil Reptiles and their Kin, 1-25 |
| Schoch R. R. (2013) The evolution of major temnospondyl clades: an inclusive phylogenetic analysis, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology doi:10.1080/14772019.2012.699006 |
Capitosauroidea ✝
