Tertremoides

{{Short description|Extinct genus of amphibians}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Lower Triassic

| taxon = Tertremoides

| authority = Lehman, 1979

| type_species = †T. ambilobensis

| type_species_authority = Lehman, 1979

}}

Tertremoides is an extinct genus of trematosaurian temnospondyl within the family Trematosauridae from Madagascar.{{Cite journal |author=Lehman, J-P. |author-link=Jean-Pierre Lehman |year=1979 |title=Nouveaux Trematosaures de madagascar, les Stegocephales Malgaches et leur Paleoecologie |journal=Annales de Paléontologie (Vertébrés)|volume=65 |issue=1 |pages=35–53 }} It was first named by Lehman, J-P. in 1966 as Trematosaurus madagascariensis but renamed to Tertremoides ambilobensis by Lehman in 1979. Its closest relative was Trematolestes.{{Cite journal |author=Rainer R. Schoch |year=2006 |title=A Complete Trematosaurid Amphibian From The Middle Triassic Of Germany|journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=29–43 |doi=10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[29:ACTAFT]2.0.CO;2 |s2cid=85829091 |url=http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26%5B29%3AACTAFT%5D2.0.CO%3B2}}

Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic position of Tertremoides, from Schoch (2006):

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|1={{clade

|1=Thoosuchus

|2={{clade

|1=Trematosaurus

|2={{clade

|1={{clade

|1=Platystega

|2=Lyrocephaliscus }}

|2={{clade

|1=Tertrema

|2={{clade

|1={{clade

|1=Trematolestes

|2=Tertremoides }}

|label2=Lonchorhynchinae

|2={{clade

|1=Wantzosaurus

|2={{clade

|1=Aphaneramma

|2=Cosgriffius }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }}

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