Phlegethontioidea
Phlegethontioidea is a clade of aistopod amphibians including the families Phlegethontiidae and Pseudophlegethontiidae. It is a stem-based taxon defined in phylogenetic terms as all aistopods sharing a more recent common ancestor with Phlegethontia than Oestocephalus.
Phlegethontioidea | |
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Fossil of Pseudophlegethontia turnbullorum in the Field Museum of Natural History. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Clade: | Tetrapodomorpha |
Order: | †Aistopoda |
Clade: | †Phlegethontioidea Anderson et al., 2003 |
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