| Source Data | |
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| Rank | family (PBDB) |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Brachyopidae |
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Classification
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Brachyopidae | family | belongs to Stereospondyli | stated with evidence | Watson, 1919 | | Brachyopidae | family | belongs to Stereospondyli | stated without evidence | Haughton, 1925 | | Brachyopidae | family | belongs to Stereospondyli | stated with evidence | Kuhn, 1946 | | Brachyopidae | family | belongs to Brachiopoidea | implied | Carroll, 1988 | | Brachyopidae | family | belongs to Brachyopoidea | stated with evidence | Damiani and Warren, 1996 | | Brachyopidae | family | belongs to Stereospondyli | stated without evidence | Damiani and Rubidge, 2003 | | Brachyopidae | family | belongs to Trematosauria | stated with evidence | Schoch, 2013 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 34 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 260 - 251 Ma
Phanerozoic |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 0.13 - 0.01 Ma
Pleistocene |
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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) | R. Broom. 1915. On the Triassic stegocephalians, Brachyops, Bothriceps, and Lydekkerina, gen. nov. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1915:363-368 |
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| Broom R. (1915) On the Triassic stegocephalians, Brachyops, Bothriceps, and Lydekkerina, gen. nov., Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1915, 363-368 |
| 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 |
| Haughton S. H. (1925) Investigations in South African fossil reptiles and amphibians (Part 13), Annals of the South African Museum 22, 227-261 |
| 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 |
| Damiani R. J., Warren A. (1996) A new look at members of the Superfamily Brachyopoidea (Amphibia, Temnospondyli) from the Early Triassic of Queensland and a preliminary analysis of brachyopoid relationships, Alcheringa 20, 277-300 |
| Warren A., Marsicano C. (1998) Revision of the Brachyopidae (Temnospondyli) from the Triassic of the Sydney, Carnarvon and Tasmania Basins, Australia, Alcheringa 22, 329-342 |
| Warren A., Marsicano C. (2000) A phylogeny of the Brachyopoidea (Temnospondyli, Stereospondyli), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20, 462-483 |
| 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., Rubidge B. S. (2003) A review of the South African temnospondyl amphibian record, Palaeontologia africana 39, 21-36 |
| Schoch R. R. (2013) The evolution of major temnospondyl clades: an inclusive phylogenetic analysis, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology doi:10.1080/14772019.2012.699006 |
Brachyopidae ✝
