Tertremoides
Encyclopedia
Tertremoides is an extinct genus
of trematosauria
n temnospondyl within the family
Trematosauridae
from Madagascar
. It was first named by Lehman, J-P. in 1966 as Trematosaurus madagascariensis
but renamed to Tertremoides ambilobensis by Lehman in 1979. Its closest relative was Trematolestes
.
Below is a cladogram
showing the phylogenetic position of Tertremoides, from Schoch (2006):
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of trematosauria
Trematosauria
Trematosauria is one of two major groups of temnospondyl amphibians that survived the Permian-Triassic extinction event, the other being the Capitosauria. The trematosaurs were a diverse and important group that included many medium-sized to large forms that were semi-aquatic to totally aquatic...
n temnospondyl within the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Trematosauridae
Trematosauridae
Trematosauridae are a family of large temnospondyl amphibians with many members. They first appeared during the Olenekian stage of the Early Triassic, and existed up until around the Carnian stage of the Late Triassic, although by then they were very rare...
from Madagascar
Madagascar
The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...
. It was first named by Lehman, J-P. in 1966 as Trematosaurus madagascariensis
Trematosaurus
Trematosaurus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian found in Germany and Russia. It was first named by Hermann Burmeister in 1849 and the type species is Trematosaurus brauni.-Valid species:...
but renamed to Tertremoides ambilobensis by Lehman in 1979. Its closest relative was Trematolestes
Trematolestes
Trematolestes is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Lower Keuper of southern Germany. It was first named by Rainer R. Schoch in 2006 and the type species is Trematolestes hagdorni...
.
Below is a cladogram
Cladogram
A cladogram is a diagram used in cladistics which shows ancestral relations between organisms, to represent the evolutionary tree of life. Although traditionally such cladograms were generated largely on the basis of morphological characters, DNA and RNA sequencing data and computational...
showing the phylogenetic position of Tertremoides, from Schoch (2006):
See also
- Prehistoric amphibian
- List of prehistoric amphibians