Fig. 7 in Anatomy and relationships of the Triassic temnospondyl Sclerothorax

Fig. 7. Results of phylogenetic analysis. Sclerothorax is deeply nested within the higher Stereospondyli, forming the sister taxon of the two best−known capitosauroids. Interestingly, plagiosaurids (Gerrothorax), Laidleria, and brachyopoids (Siderops) are found to be monophyletic, which is in accordance with Yates and Warren (2000), while in contrast to the findings of these authors, the latter clade is only remotely related to trematosaurids and metoposaurids. Peltobatrachus, another enigmatic terrestrial temnospondyl, is here found to be a primitive stereospondylomorph. Numbers below each node refer to synapomorphies supporting them.