Gephyrosauridae

Gephyrosauridae

Gephyrosauridae

Extinct family of reptiles

Gephyrosauridae is an extinct family of rhynchocephalians that lived in the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic.[1] They are generally considered to be rhynchocephalians that lie outside of Sphenodontia, but in some analyses they are recovered as more closely related to squamates than to sphenodontians.[3]

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Distribution

Members of Gephyrosauridae are known from the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    The Paleobiology Database Archived 2010-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
  2. [2]
    David I. Whiteside, FLS; Christopher J. Duffin, FLS (2017). "Late Triassic terrestrial microvertebrates from Charles Moore's "Microlestes" quarry, Holwell, Somerset, UK". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 179 (3): 677–705. doi:10.1111/zoj.12458.
  3. [3]
    Simões, Tiago R.; Caldwell, Michael W.; Pierce, Stephanie E. (December 2020). "Sphenodontian phylogeny and the impact of model choice in Bayesian morphological clock estimates of divergence times and evolutionary rates". BMC Biology. 18 (1): 191. doi:10.1186/s12915-020-00901-5. ISSN 1741-7007. PMC 7720557. PMID 33287835.


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