Emydopoidea

Emydopoidea Temporal range: Late Permian - Middle Triassic
Restoration of the emydopoid Myosaurus gracilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	Therapsida
Infraorder:	†Dicynodontia
Parvorder:	†Therochelonia
Superfamily:	†Emydopoidea Cluver and King, 1983
Subgroups
See text.

Emydopoidea is a group of Late Permian dicynodont therapsids. It includes the small-bodied Emydops, Myosaurus, and kingoriids, and the burrowing cistecephalids.^[1] Below is a cladogram from Kammerer et al. (2011) showing the phylogenetic relationships of emydopoids:^[2]

Therochelonia	Diictodontia   Pylaecephalidae  Diictodon Eosimops Prosictodon Robertia  Emydopoidea  Emydops  Kistecephalia   Kingoriidae  Dicynodontoides Kombuisia Myosaurus  Cistecephalidae  Cistecephalus Cistecephaloides Kawingasaurus Bidentalia

References

1. Kammerer, C.F.; Angielczyk, K.D. (2009). "A proposed higher taxonomy of anomodont therapsids" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2018: 1–24.
2. Kammerer, C.F.; Angielczyk, K.D.; Fröbisch, J. (2011). "A comprehensive taxonomic revision of Dicynodon (Therapsida, Anomodontia) and its implications for dicynodont phylogeny, biogeography, and biostratigraphy". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (Suppl. 1): 1–158. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.627074.