Tertremoides Temporal range: Lower Triassic |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Temnospondyli |
Infraorder: | Trematosauria |
Superfamily: | Trematosauroidea |
Family: | Trematosauridae |
Genus: |
Tertremoides Lehman, 1979 |
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Tertremoides is an extinct genus of trematosaurian temnospondyl within the family Trematosauridae from Madagascar. It was first named by Lehman, J-P. in 1966 as Trematosaurus madagascariensis but renamed to Tertremoides ambilobensis by Lehman in 1979. Its closest relative was Trematolestes.
Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic position of Tertremoides, from Schoch (2006):
Tertremoides