Heylerosauridae

{{Short description|Extinct family of temnospondyls}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = Heylerosaurids | fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Middle Triassic|Late Triassic}} | image = Eocyclotosaurus voschmidti.JPG | image_caption = Skull of ''[[Eocyclotosaurus|Eocyclotosaurus woschmidti]]'' | taxon = Heylerosauridae | authority = Shishkin, [[1980 in paleontology|1980]] }}

'''Heylerosauridae''' is a [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] of [[Mastodonsauroidea|mastodonsauroid]] [[temnospondyl]]s. It was first named in 1980 to include the genera ''[[Odenwaldia]]'' and ''[[Quasicyclotosaurus]]''.<ref name=SMA80>{{cite journal |last=Shishkin |first=M.A. |year=1980 |title=The Luzocephalidae, a new Triassic labyrinthodont family |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=14 |pages=88–101}}</ref> In addition to these genera, the family now includes ''[[Eocyclotosaurus]]'' and ''[[Yuanansuchus]]''.<ref name=LW05>{{cite journal |last=Liu |first=J. |author2=Wang, Y. |year=2005 |title=The first complete mastodonsauroid skull from the Triassic of China: ''Yuanansuchus laticeps'' gen. et sp. nov. |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=725–728 |doi=10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0725:tfcmsf]2.0.co;2}}</ref> Recent phylogenetic analyses have not found a close relationship between ''Odenwaldia'' and other heylerosaurids and place it outside the family. Heylerosaurids are generally regarded as the [[sister taxon]] of the [[Stenotosauridae|stenotosaurids]].<ref name="Fortuny11">{{Cite journal |author=Josep Fortuny, Àngel Galobart and Carles De Santisteban |year=2011 |title=A new capitosaur from the Middle Triassic of Spain and the relationships within the Capitosauria |url=http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app56/app20100025_acc.pdf |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=56 |doi=10.4202/app.2010.0025 |doi-access=free |access-date=2011-04-18 |archive-date=2011-05-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522161402/http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app56/app20100025_acc.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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[[Category:Capitosauria]] [[Category:Triassic temnospondyls]] [[Category:Middle Triassic first appearances]] [[Category:Late Triassic extinctions]]