Captorhinidae
Extinct family of tetrapods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Captorhinids | |
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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 | |
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