{{Short description|Extinct family of temnospondyls}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Late Carboniferous–Late Permian, {{fossil range|307.1|252|earliest=315.2|latest=0|PS= <br>Possible descendant taxon Lissamphibia survives to present.}} | image = | image_caption = | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Micropholidae | authority = Watson, 1919 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = * ''Eoscopus''? * ''Micropholis'' * ''Pasawioops'' * ''Plemmyradytes''? * ''Rubeostratilia''? * ''Tersomius'' }}
The '''Micropholidae''' are an extinct family of dissorophoid temnospondyls known from Late Carboniferous to Early Triassic strata in the United States and South Africa.
==Systematics== Members of Micropholidae were historically included in Amphibamidae, but Schoch (2019) recovered Amphibamidae as paraphyletic, necessitating resurrection of Micropholidae for ''Micropholis'' and closely related taxa.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Fröbisch | first1 = N. B. | last2 = Reisz | first2 = R. R. | year = 2008 | title = A New Lower Permian Amphibamid (Dissorophoidea, Temnospondyli) from the Fissure Fill Deposits near Richards Spur, Oklahoma | url = | journal = Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | volume = 28 | issue = 4| pages = 1015–1030 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Frobisch | first1 = N. B. | last2 = Schoch | first2 = R. R. | year = 2009 | title = Testing the Impact of Miniaturization on Phylogeny: Paleozoic Dissorophoid Amphibians | url = | journal = Systematic Biology | volume = 58 | issue = 3| pages = 312–327 | doi = 10.1093/sysbio/syp029 | pmid = 20525586 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Huttenlocker | first1 = A.K. | last2 = Pardo | first2 = J.D. | last3 = Small | first3 = B.J. | year = 2007 | title = Plemmyradytes shintoni, gen. et. sp. nov., an Early Permian Amphibamid (Temnospondyli:Dissorophoidea) from the Eskridge Formation, Nebraska | url = | journal = Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | volume = 27 | issue = 2| pages = 316–328 | doi = 10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[316:PSGESN]2.0.CO;2 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Schoch | first1 = Rainer R. | year = 2018 | title = The putative lissamphibian stem-group: phylogeny and evolution of the dissorophoid temnospondyls | url = | journal = Journal of Paleontology | volume = 93| issue = 1| pages = 137–156| doi = 10.1017/jpa.2018.67 | doi-access = free }}</ref>
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Category:Amphibamids Category:Temnospondyl families Category:Permian temnospondyls Category:Carboniferous temnospondyls Category:Carboniferous amphibians of North America Category:Permian amphibians of North America Category:Triassic amphibians of North America Category:Mesozoic amphibians of Africa