Lapillopsidae Explained

Lapillopsidae is an extinct family of temnospondyls.

Lapillopsis was found as the sister to Rotaurisaurus in a 1999 analysis that found the Lapillopsidae as basal stereospondyls.^[1] Lapillopsis was found as a sister to Dissorophoidea by a 2017 analysis.^[2] Another relative of Lapillopsis, Manubrantlia was described from the Early Triassic of India,^[3] and Rhigerpeton was found in Antarctica.^[4]

References

• 10.1080/03115519008527816. Lapillopsis, a new genus of temnospondyl amphibians from the Early Triassic of Queensland. 1990. Warren. A.A.. Hutchinson. M.N.. Alcheringa. 14. 2. 149–158.

Notes and References

1. Yates, A. M. 1999. The Lapillopsidae: a new family of small temnospondyls from the Early Triassic of Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19: 302-320. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.1999.10011143
2. Pardo, J. D., Small, B. J., Huttenlocker, A. K. 2017. Stem caecilian from the Triassic of Colorado sheds light on the origins of Lissamphibia. PNAS. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1706752114
3. Yates & Sengupta, 2002. A lapillopsid temnospondyl from the Early Triassic of India. Alcheringa 26: 201-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115510208619252
4. Gee . Bryan M. . Beightol . Charles V. . Sidor . Christian A. . 2023-06-28 . A new lapillopsid from Antarctica and a reappraisal of the phylogenetic relationships of early diverging stereospondyls . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . en . 10.1080/02724634.2023.2216260 . 0272-4634.