Heylerosauridae
| Heylerosaurids Temporal range:
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| Skull of Eocyclotosaurus woschmidti | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Tetrapoda |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
| Clade: | †Capitosauria |
| Superfamily: | †Mastodonsauroidea |
| Family: | † Shishkin, 1980 |
Heylerosauridae is a family of mastodonsauroid temnospondyls. It was first named in 1980 to include the genera Odenwaldia and Quasicyclotosaurus.[1] In addition to these genera, the family now includes Eocyclotosaurus and Yuanansuchus.[2] Recent phylogenetic analyses have not found a close relationship between Odenwaldia and other heylerosaurids and place it outside the family. Heylerosaurids are generally regarded as the sister taxon of the stenotosaurids.[3]
References
- ^ Shishkin, M.A. (1980). "The Luzocephalidae, a new Triassic labyrinthodont family". Paleontological Journal. 14: 88–101.
- ^ Liu, J.; Wang, Y. (2005). "The first complete mastodonsauroid skull from the Triassic of China: Yuanansuchus laticeps gen. et sp. nov". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 25 (3): 725–728. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0725:tfcmsf]2.0.co;2.
- ^ Josep Fortuny, Àngel Galobart and Carles De Santisteban (2011). "A new capitosaur from the Middle Triassic of Spain and the relationships within the Capitosauria" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 56. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0025. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-22. Retrieved 2011-04-18.
