Emydopoidea
| Emydopoidea Temporal range: Late Permian - Middle Triassic |
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| Restoration of the emydopoid Myosaurus gracilis | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Infraorder: | †Dicynodontia |
| Parvorder: | †Therochelonia |
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†Emydopoidea Cluver and King, 1983 |
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Emydopoidea is a group of Late Permian dicynodont therapsids. It includes the small-bodied Emydops, Myosaurus, and kingoriids, and the burrowing cistecephalids. Below is a cladogram from Kammerer et al. (2011) showing the phylogenetic relationships of emydopoids:
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