Captorhinidae
Sign in to saveAlso known as Captorhinid, Captorhinids
Captorhinidae is an extinct family of tetrapods, traditionally considered primitive reptiles, known from the late Carboniferous to the Late Permian. They had a cosmopolitan distribution across Pangea.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Eureptilia
- Image
- Captorhinus aguti p.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- Commons category
- Captorhinidae
- taxon name
- Captorhinidae
- taxon rank
- family
- start time
- 300000000-
- end time
- 255000000-
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~5 min read
Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Description
- Classification
- Taxonomy
- Phylogeny
- References
Captorhinidae is an extinct family of tetrapods, traditionally considered primitive reptiles, known from the late Carboniferous to the Late Permian. They had a cosmopolitan distribution across Pangea.
==Description== left|thumb|Skull of Captorhinus|Captorhinus kierani
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Captorhinidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.