Temporal range: Pennsylvanian - Lopingian 300–252 Ma
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Fossil Captorhinus specimens
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Clade:
Eureptilia
Family:
†Captorhinidae Case, 1911
Type species
†Captorhinus aguti
Cope, 1895
Genera
See text
Synonyms
Romeriidae Price, 1937
Captorhinidae is an extinct family of tetrapods, typically considered primitive reptiles, known from the late Carboniferous to the Late Permian. They had a cosmopolitan distribution across Pangea.
Captorhinidae is an extinct family of tetrapods, typically considered primitive reptiles, known from the late Carboniferous to the Late Permian. They...
with the postorbital. Aside from Diapsida, the group notably contains Captorhinidae, a diverse and long lived (Late Carboniferous-Late Permian) clade of...
Nycteroleteridae † Family Pareiasauridae † (Subclass) Clade Eureptilia Family Captorhinidae † (Infraclass) Clade Diapsida Family Araeoscelididae † Family Weigeltisauridae...
Morphology and Ontogeny of the Hindlimb of Moradisaurus grandis (Reptilia, Captorhinidae)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 25 (2): 309–319. Sidor, CA; Ide...
"Testudines and all amniotes more closely related to them than to diapsids". Captorhinidae was transferred to Eureptilia, while Parareptilia included turtles alongside...
Gauthier, Kluge and Rowe (1988) themselves included only turtles and Captorhinidae in their Anapsida, while excluding the majority of anapsids in the traditional...
skeleton of C. aguti resembles a modern lizard. Although a subfamily of Captorhinidae, Moradisaurinae, also possessed multiple-tooth-rows, the best-known...
paraphyletic Captorhinomorpha, containing the families Protorothyrididae, Captorhinidae, Bolosauridae, Acleistorhinidae and possibly also Batropetidae Procolophonia...
The largest prehistoric animals include both vertebrate and invertebrate species. Many of them are described below, along with their typical range of size...
Carboniferous and Early Permian, belonging to the groups Recumbirostra and Captorhinidae. Two squamate species from the Jurassic period, Eichstaettisaurus schroederi...
Hennessey Formation United States ( Oklahoma) A member of the family Captorhinidae belonging to the subfamily Moradisaurinae. The type species is "Captorhinikos"...
Diadectidae Series Amniota Class Sauropsida Basal Eureptilia Family Captorhinidae Family Protorothyrididae Subclass Diapsida Order Araeoscelidia Family...
or generally called "lipped lizard" is another genus of the family Captorhinidae whose name is derived from the Greek for "forceps lizard" based on (labid-...
Archosauromorpha Lepidosauromorpha List of largest extinct lizards Parareptilia Captorhinidae Araeoscelidia Neodiapsida Drepanosauromorpha Younginiformes Ichthyosauromorpha...
Family Procolophonidae Family Pareiasauridae Basal Eureptilia Family Captorhinidae Family Protorothyrididae Subclass Diapsida Order Araeoscelidia Family...
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