{{Short description|Extinct clade of amphibians}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Pennsylvanian - Early Triassic, {{fossil range|307.1|249|earliest=323.2}} | image = Eryops megacephalus - Reconstruction of skeleton.jpg | image_caption = Mounted skeleton of ''Eryops'', American Museum of Natural History | taxon = Euskelia | authority = Yates and Warren, 2000 | subdivision_ranks = Superfamilies | subdivision = *{{extinct}}Dissorophoidea? *{{extinct}}Eryopoidea | synonyms = *Eryopia }}
'''Euskelia''' is a clade of extinct temnospondyl amphibians. The naming derives from the ancient Greek ''eu'', meaning "true", and ''skelos'', meaning "limb", in reference to well-ossified limb bones with crests to which muscles were attached.<ref name=YW00/> Members of this group have the most ossified skeleton of all temnospondyls.<ref>[https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/3c123e1e-4b38-4819-a674-179b04539029/content Immaturity vs paedomorphism: a rhinesuchid stereospondyl postcranium from the Upper Permian of South Africa]</ref>
''Euskelia'' is a stem-based taxon including all temnospondyls more closely related to ''Eryops'' (an eryopoid) than to ''Parotosuchus'' (a stereospondyl). The clade was named by Yates & Warren (2000), whose phylogenetic analysis argued that eryopoids were more closely related to dissorophoids than to stereospondyls. Euskelia was intended to encompass the terrestrial eryopoid+dissorophoid clade, opposite to the clade Limnarchia, which included aquatic groups such as dvinosaurs and stereospondylomorphs.<ref name=YW00>{{cite journal |last=Yates |first=A. M. |author2=Warren, A. A. |year=2000 |title=The phylogeny of the 'higher' temnospondyls (Vertebrata: Choanata) and its implications for the monophyly and origins of the Stereospondyli. |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=128 |pages=77–121 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb00650.x|doi-access=free }}</ref>
Other studies propose a different structure of the temnospondyl family tree. For example, Schoch (2013) considered eryopoids to be closer to stereospondylomorphs than to dissorophoids. That study offered the name Eryopiformes for the eryopoid+stereospondylomorph clade, excluding dissorophoids.<ref name="Schoch2013">{{Cite journal |last1=Schoch |first1=R. R. |year=2013 |title=The evolution of major temnospondyl clades: An inclusive phylogenetic analysis |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=11 |pages=673–705 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2012.699006}}</ref>
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Category:Carboniferous temnospondyls Category:Permian temnospondyls Category:Triassic temnospondyls Category:Pennsylvanian first appearances Category:Early Triassic extinctions
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