Mikko's Phylogeny Archive

†Emydopoidea – Emydopoid dicynodonts

After Kammerer & Angielczyk, 2009, and Botha-Brink & Angielczyk, 2010

<==o †Emydopoidea van Hoepen, 1934 sensu Cluver & King, 1983 [paraphyletic Diictodontia in partim; Kingorioidea King, 1988; Emydopidae sensu Fröbisch, 2007]
   |-- &38224;Digalodon rubidgei
   |--o †Emydopidae van Hoepen, 1934 sensu Cluver & King, 1983 [Emydopsinae van Hoepen, 1934 [sic.]]
   |  |?- †Emydorhynchus palustris
   |  |--o †Emydops Broom, 1912 [Emydopsoides; Emydopsis Broom, 1921; Storthyggnathus Janensch, 1952; Storthyggognathus Janensch, 1952; Emydoses Keyser, 1993 (lapsus calami?)]
   |  |  |-- †E. arctatus (Owen, 1876) Broom, 1913
   |  |  |-- †E. longiceps
   |  |  |-- †E. minor
   |  |  |-- †E. trigoniceps
   |  |  |-- †E. oweni
   |  |  `-- †E. platyceps Broom & Haughton, 1917
   |  |-- †Myosauroides minaari
   |  `-- †Palemydops
   `--o †Kistecephalia Seeley, 1894 sensu Kammerer & Angielczyk, 2009
      |--o †Cistecephalidae Broom, 1903
      |  |--o †Cistecephalus Owen, 1876 [Kistecephalus Owen, 1878; Cistecephalus Lydekker, 1889 (unjust. emend.)]
      |  |  |-- †C. sp. [Zambia]
      |  |  `-- †C. microrhinus Owen, 1876
      |  `--+-- †Cistecephaloides boonstrai Cluver, 1974
      |     `-- †Kawingasaurus fossilis Cox, 1972
      `--+-- †Myosaurus gracilis Haughton, 1917 [Myosauridae (Kitching, 1968) Hammer & Cosgriff, 1981)]
         `--o †Kingoriidae King, 1988
            |--o †Dicynodontoides Broom, 1940 sensu Angielczyk et al., 2009 [Kingoria Cox, 1959]
            |  |-- †D. prokoubuisia
            |  |-- †D. recurvidens
            |  `-- †D. nowacki (von Huene, 1942) [Kingoria nowacki (von Huene) Cox, 1959]
            `--o †Kombuisia Hotton, 1974 [Kombusia (lapsus calami?)]
               |-- †K. frerensis Hotton, 1974
               `-- †K. antarctica Förbisch, Angielczyk & Sidor, 2010

<==o †Emydopoidea
   |-- †Emydops
   `--o †Kistecephalia
      |--o †Kingoriidae
      |  |-- †Dicynodontoides
      |  `--o †Kombuisia
      |     |-- †K. frerensis
      |     `-- †K. antarctica
      `--+-- †Myosaurus
         `-- †Cistecephalidae Broom, 1903

Reference(s):

• Botha-Brink, J. & Angielczyk, K. D., 2010: Do extraordinarily high growth rates in Permo-Triassic dicynodonts (Therapsida, Anomodontia) explain their success before and after the end-Permian extinction?
  –Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society: in Press, pp. 1-25 [doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00601.x]
• Förbisch, J., Angielczyk, K. D. & Sidor, C. A., 2010: The Triassic dicynodont Kombuisia (Synapsida, Anomodontia) from Antarctica, a refuge from the terrestrial Permian-Triassic mass extinction.
  –Naturwissenschaften: Vol. 97, #2, pp. 187-196 [doi: 10.1007/s00114-009-0626-6]
• Kammerer, C. F. & Angielczyk, K. D., 2009: A proposed higher taxonomy of anomodont therapsids.
  –Zootaxa: #2018, pp. 1-24