Gephyrosauridae

Gephyrosauridae was a family of sphenodonts that lived in the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic. The members of Gephyrosauridae were named lepidosaurs in 1985 by Michael Benton.[1]

Gephyrosauridae
Temporal range: Late Triassic - Early Jurassic, 200–195 Ma
Life restoration of Gephyrosaurus bridensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Rhynchocephalia
Family: Gephyrosauridae
Evans, 1980
Type species
Gephyrosaurus bridensis
Evans, 1980
Genera

Distribution

Members of Gephyrosauridae are known from the United Kingdom, Italy, and Switzerland.[1]

References

  1. The Paleobiology Database Archived 2010-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
  2. David I. Whiteside, FLS; Christopher J. Duffin, FLS (2017). "Late Triassic terrestrial microvertebrates from Charles Moore's "Microlestes" quarry, Holwell, Somerset, UK". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 179 (3): 677–705. doi:10.1111/zoj.12458.


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