Phlegethontioidea

Phlegethontioidea
Fossil of Pseudophlegethontia turnbullorum in the Field Museum of Natural History.
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Clade: Tetrapodomorpha
Order: †Aistopoda
Clade: †Phlegethontioidea
Anderson et al., 2003

Phlegethontioidea is a clade of aistopod tetrapodomorphss including the families Phlegethontiidae and Pseudophlegethontiidae. It is a stem-based taxon defined in phylogenetic terms as all aistopods sharing a more recent common ancestor with Phlegethontia than Oestocephalus.

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