Eryopoidea

Eryopoidea
Temporal range:
Pennsylvanian - Permian,
Life restoration of Eryops megacephalus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Tetrapoda
Order: †Temnospondyli
Suborder: †Euskelia
Superfamily: †Eryopoidea
Cope, 1882
Families

Eryopoidea is a clade of late Carboniferous and Permian temnospondyl amphibians, known from North America and Europe. Carroll (1998) includes no fewer than ten families, but Yates and Warren (2000) replaced this with a cladistic approach that includes three closely related families, the Eryopidae, Parioxyidae and Zatrachydidae. They define the Eryopoidea as all members of Euskelia in which the choana are relatively rounded and the iliac blade is vertical. A similar definition (without specifically naming Euskelia) is provided by Laurin and Steyer (2000).

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