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Extinct clade of amphibians

Rhytidostea
Temporal range: Permian - Triassic
Life restoration of Lyddekerina huxleyi, a lydekkerinid and basal rhytidostean
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Stereospondyli
Clade: Rhytidostea
Shoch and Milner, 2000
Superfamilies and families

Rhytidostea is a clade of stereospondyl temnospondyls. It was erected in 2000 to include several temnospondyl groups distinct from the "higher" group of capitosaurs, including lydekkerinids, brachyopoids, and rhytidosteids. Rhytidosteans first appeared in the Permian period and underwent an evolutionary radiation during the Induan stage of the Early Triassic. Along with capitosaurs, rhytidosteans comprise much of the larger suborder Stereospondyli. Rhytidostea has often been considered the sister group of the clade Capitosauria, but has been placed in various other phylogenetic positions. In many studies, members of Rhytidostea are split, with lydekkerinids having a more basal position among stereospondyls while rhytidosteids and brachyopoids form a group placed among the more derived trematosaurian stereospondyls.

Classification

Schoch and Milner (2000) erected the clade Rhytidostea to include lydekkerinids, brachyopoids, and rhytidosteids. The clade was the sister taxon of Capitosauria, the "higher" stereospondyls. Ruta et al. (2007) placed Rhytidostea in a similar phylogenetic position, defining it as a clade including Eolydekkerina (a lydekkerinid), Batrachosuchus (a brachyopid), and all descendants of their most recent common ancestor. Below is a cladogram modified from Ruta et al. (2007):

Stereospondyli 

Plagiosauridae

Peltobatrachidae

Lapillopsidae

Rhinesuchidae

 Rhytidostea 
 Lydekkerinidae 

Eolydekkerina

Broomulus

Limnoiketes

Lydekkerina

Deltacephalus

Edingerella

Watsonisuchus

Chomatobatrachus

Luzocephalus

Indobrachyops

Peltobatrachus

Laidleria

Rhytidosteus

Trucheosaurus

Acerastea

Derwentia

Rawana

Deltacephalus

Mahavisaurus

Brachyopomorpha

Capitosauria

Trematosauria

Other phylogenetic analyses have placed rhytidosteids and brachyopoids as closely related groups within Trematosauria, a more derived clade of stereospondyls. They are separate from the lydekkerinids, which remain a basal group of stereospondyls.

References

  1. Ruta, M.; Pisani, D.; Lloyd, G. T.; Benton, M. J. (2007). "A supertree of Temnospondyli: cladogenetic patterns in the most species-rich groups of early tetrapods". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 274 (1629): 3087–3095. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1250. PMC 2293949. PMID 17925278.
  2. Warren, A.; Marsicano, C. (2000). "A phylogeny of the Brachyopoidea". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 20 (3): 462–483. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0462:APOTBT]2.0.CO;2. hdl:11336/93649.
  3. Yates, A.M. (2000). "A new tiny rhytidosteid (Temnospondyli: Stereospondyli) from the Early Triassic of Australia and the possibility of hidden temnospondyl diversity". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 20 (3): 484–489. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0484:ANTRTS]2.0.CO;2.
Taxon identifiers
Rhytidostea
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