Mastodonsauroidea
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The Mastodonsauroidea are an extinct superfamily of temnospondyl amphibians known from the Triassic. Fossils belonging to this superfamily have been found in North America, Greenland, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Ferganobatrachus from the Jurassic of Asia was initially assigned to this superfamily, but is now considered to be congeneric with the brachyopid Gobiops.
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- Parent taxon
- Capitosauria
- Image
- Mastodonsaurus DB.jpg
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- temporal range start
- Early Triassic
- temporal range end
- Middle Jurassic
- end time
- 161200000-
- Commons category
- Capitosauria
- taxon name
- Mastodonsauroidea
- taxon rank
- superfamily
- start time
- 251000000-
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The Mastodonsauroidea are an extinct superfamily of temnospondyl amphibians known from the Triassic. Fossils belonging to this superfamily have been found in North America, Greenland, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Ferganobatrachus from the Jurassic of Asia was initially assigned to this superfamily, but is now considered to be congeneric with the brachyopid Gobiops.
==References== The Paleobiology Database & 2007 "Revision of the type material and nomenclature of Mastodonsaurus giganteus (Jaeger) (Temnospondyli) from the middle Triassic of Germany" Palaeontology 505:1245-1266
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