Micropholidae

The Micropholidae are an extinct family of dissorophoid temnospondyls known from Late Carboniferous to Early Triassic strata in the United States and South Africa.

Micropholidae Temporal range: Late Carboniferous–Late Permian, 307.1–252 Ma Possible descendant taxon Lissamphibia survives to present. PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Tetrapoda
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Suborder:	†Euskelia
Superfamily:	†Dissorophoidea
Clade:	†Amphibamiformes
Family:	†Micropholidae Watson, 1919
Genera
Eoscopus? Micropholis Pasawioops Plemmyradytes? Rubeostratilia? Tersomius

Systematics

Members of Micropholidae were historically included in Amphibamidae, but Schoch (2019) recovered Amphibamidae as paraphyletic, necessitating resurrection of Micropholidae for Micropholis and closely related taxa.^[1][2][3][4]