Gephyrosauridae

Gephyrosauridae was a family of sphenodonts that lived in the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic. The members of Gephyrosauridae were named lepidosaurs in 1985 by Michael Benton.[1]

Gephyrosauridae Temporal range: Late Triassic - Early Jurassic, 200–195 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Life restoration of Gephyrosaurus bridensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Rhynchocephalia
Family:	†Gephyrosauridae Evans, 1980
Type species
†Gephyrosaurus bridensis Evans, 1980
Genera
†Deltadectes Whiteside, Duffin, & Furrer, 2017 †Gephyrosaurus Evans, 1980[1] †Diphydontosaurus? Whiteside, 1986 †Penegephyrosaurus Whiteside & Duffin, 2017[2]

Distribution

Members of Gephyrosauridae are known from the United Kingdom, Italy, and Switzerland.[1]

References

1. The Paleobiology Database Archived 2010-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
2. David I. Whiteside, FLS; Christopher J. Duffin, FLS (2017). "Late Triassic terrestrial microvertebrates from Charles Moore's "Microlestes" quarry, Holwell, Somerset, UK". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 179 (3): 677–705. doi:10.1111/zoj.12458.