Captorhinidae
Captorhinidae (also known as cotylosaurs) 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.
| Captorhinids Temporal range: Pennsylvanian - Lopingian | |
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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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