Alternative spelling: Microsauri
Full reference: J. W. Dawson. 1863. Air-Breathers of the Coal Period: A Descriptive Account of the Remains of Land Animals Found in the Coal Formation of Nova Scotia with Remarks on their Bearing on Theories of the Formation of Coal and of the Origin of Species. Dawson Brothers, Montreal 81 p.
Parent taxon: Lepospondyli according to M. Laurin et al. 2000
See also Carroll 1988, Carroll 1991, Carroll et al. 1998, Carroll and Gaskill 1978, Cope 1875, Daly 1973, Dawson 1863, Gadow 1898, Gardiner 1982, Gauthier et al. 1989, Haubold 1971, Haubold 1974, Hay 1902, Huene 1954, Jaekel 1911, Kuhn 1946, Moodie 1909, Moodie 1916, Olson 1970, Olson and Barghusen 1962, Perrier 1928, Reisz and Modesto 1996, Roxo 1937, Swinton 1934 and Thayer 1985
Sister taxa: Acherontiscidae, Nectridea, Orthocosta, Seelya
Subtaxa: Altenglanerpeton Amblyodon Archerpeton Barillopus Cymatorhiza Dromillopus Eurythorax Haplosauri Hylonomidae Hyphasma Microbrachidae Microbrachomorpha Novascoticus Ornithoides Paramicrobrachis Pariostegus Protritonidae Ptyoniidae Puertollanopus Sauropleuridae Saxonerpeton Stenichnus Thyrsidium Tuditanomorpha Urosauri Utaherpeton
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