Gephyrosauridae Temporal range: Late Triassic - Early Jurassic,
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Life restoration of Gephyrosaurus bridensis | |
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Reconstruction of the skull of Gephyrosaurus in lateral view | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Rhynchocephalia |
Family: | †Gephyrosauridae Evans, 1980 |
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†Gephyrosaurus bridensis Evans, 1980
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Gephyrosauridae is an extinct family of rhynchocephalians that lived in the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic.[1] They are generally considered to be rhynchocephalians that lie outside of Sphenodontia, but in some analyses they are recovered as more closely related to squamates than to sphenodontians.[3]
Members of Gephyrosauridae are known from the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.[1]