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Eutemnospondyli

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
†Temnospondyli

Phylum
  
Chordata

Eutemnospondyli

Clade
  
†Eutemnospondyli Schoch, 2013

Similar
  
Trematosauria, Capitosauria, Balanerpeton, Rhinesuchidae, Dissorophoidea

Eutemnospondyli (meaning "true Temnospondyli") is a clade of temnospondyl amphibians that includes most temnospondyls except edopoids. Eutemnospondyli was named by German paleontologist Rainer R. Schoch in 2013. He defined it as a stem-based taxon including all temnospondyls more closely related to Stereospondyli than to Edopoidea. In his phylogenetic analysis, Eutemnospondyli included dendrerpetontids and a clade he referred to as Rhachitomi. Rhachitomi is defined to include four major and well-supported clades of temnospondyls: Dvinosauria, Eryopidae, Stereospondyli and a clade formed by Zatracheidae and Dissorophoidea. Below is a cladogram from Schoch's analysis:

References

Eutemnospondyli Wikipedia