eryopoidea

{{Short description|Extinct superfamily of amphibians}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range =
Pennsylvanian - Permian, {{fossil range|300|272.5|latest=251.903}}

| image = Eryops1DB.jpg

| image_caption= Life restoration of Eryops megacephalus

| taxon = Eryopoidea

| authority = Cope, 1882

| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision =

• {{extinct}}Eryopidae
• {{extinct}}Parioxyidae
• {{extinct}}Zatrachydidae

}}

Eryopoidea is a clade of late Carboniferous and Permian temnospondyl amphibians, known from North America and Europe. Carroll (1998) includes no fewer than ten families,{{cite book | author = Carroll, R. L. | author-link = Robert L. Carroll | year = 1988 | title = Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution | url = https://archive.org/details/vertebratepaleon0000carr | url-access = registration | publisher = W.H. Freeman & Co. | isbn = 0-7167-1822-7}} but Yates and Warren (2000) replaced this with a cladistic approach that includes three closely-related families, the Eryopidae, Parioxyidae and Zatrachydidae.{{cite journal | author = Yates, A. M. | author-link = Adam Yates (paleontologist) | author2 = Warren, A. A. | author2-link = Anne Warren (paleontologist)| name-list-style = amp | 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 | issue = 1 | pages = 77–121 | doi = 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb00650.x| doi-access = free }} They define the Eryopoidea as all members of Euskelia in which the choana are relatively rounded and the iliac blade is vertical. A similar definition (without specifically naming Euskelia) is provided by Laurin and Steyer (2000).{{cite web | author = Laurin. M | author-link = Michel Laurin | author2 = Steyer, J-S | author2-link = Jean-Sébastien Steyer | name-list-style = amp | year = 2000 | url = http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Temnospondyli | title = Phylogeny and Apomorphies of Temnospondyls - Tree of Life project}}