After Yates & Warren, 2000, and Schoch, 2008
<==o †Metoposauroidea |--o †Latiscopidae [Almasauridae] | |-- †Latiscopus disjunctus Wilson, 1948 [nomen dubium (Bolt & Chatterjee, 2000)] | `-- †Almasaurus habbazi `--+-- †Callistomordax kugleri Schoch, 2008; M.Trias CEu. `--o †Metoposauridae Watson, 1919 |?- ?†Apachesaurus gregorii Hunt, 1993 [incl. Kalamoiketor pinkleyi Branson & Mehl, 1929] |?- †“Metoposaurus” santaecrucis Koken, 1913 [nomen dubium] |?- †Dictyocephalus elegans Leidy, 1856 [Temnospondylia indet.] |--+-- †“dwarf metoposaur” | `--o †Metoposaurus diagnosticus (Meyer, 1842) Lydekker, 1890 [Metopias diagnosticus Meyer, 1842; M. stuttgartiensis Fraas, 1913; M. heimi Kuhn, 1932; Buettneria perfecta Case, 1922 in partim] | |-- †M. d. diagnosticus (Meyer, 1842) | `-- †M. d. krasiejowensis Sulej, 2002 `--+--o †“Metoposaurus 2” | |-- †“M.” azerouali Dutuit, 1976 | |-- †Arganasaurus lyazidi (Dutuit, 1976) | `-- †Dunuitosaurus ouazzoui (Dutuit, 1976) `--+--o †“Buettneria” Case, 1922 [non Buettneria, a katydid orthopteran [Insecta: Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae]] [taxonomic history] | |-- †“B.” perfecta Case, 1922 [taxonomic history] | |-- †“B.” bakeri Case, 1931 [taxonomic history] | `?- †“B.” howardensis Sawin, 1945 [taxonomic history] `--+-- †Koskinodon princeps Branson & Mehl, 1929 [Borborophaqus wyomingensis Branson & Mehl, 1929] [= Koskinonodon perfectum (Case), see “Taxonomic history of the genus Buettneria”] |-- †“Metoposaurus 3” maleriensis Roychowdhury, 1965 [Chowdhury; Roy-Chowdhury] [†Buettneria maleriensis (Roychowdhury, 1965) Sengupta, 2002] [= Koskinonodon perfectum (Case), see “Taxonomic history of the genus Buettneria”] `-- †Anaschisma browni Branson, 1905
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–iNet: US National Park Service: http://nps.gov/archive/pefo/Paleontology/koskinonodon.htm - Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
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