Cyamodontidae is an extinct family of superficially turtle-like
placodont
Placodonts (" Tablet teeth") are an extinct order of marine reptiles that lived during the Triassic period, becoming extinct at the end of the period. They were part of Sauropterygia, the group that includes plesiosaurs. Placodonts were genera ...
s belonging to the superfamily
Cyamodontoidea
Cyamodontoidea is an extinct superfamily of placodont marine reptiles from the Triassic period. It is one of the two main groups of placodonts, the other being Placodontoidea. Cyamodontoids are distinguished from placodontoids by their large sh ...
. Fossils have been found in Germany and Italy. It is named after ''
Cyamodus
''Cyamodus'' (pron.: SIE-ah-MO-dus) is a genus of placodonts known from several species described from Middle-Late Triassic of Europe and China. The genus was described by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer in 1863, based on specimens found in Germ ...
'', the namesake of the family.
Meyer Meyer may refer to:
People
*Meyer (surname), listing people so named
* Meyer (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the name
Companies
* Meyer Burger, a Swiss mechanical engineering company
* Meyer Corporation
* Meyer Sound Labo ...
(1863) originally created the family solely for ''Cyamodus''. However, the naming of ''
Protenodontosaurus
''Protenodontosaurus'' is an extinct genus of placodont
Placodonts ("Tablet teeth") are an extinct order of marine reptiles that lived during the Triassic period, becoming extinct at the end of the period. They were part of Sauropterygia, th ...
'' in 1990 by Pinna regrouped the two genera under one family.
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Placodonts
Prehistoric reptile families