of the anteosaurs (in which Doliosauriscus become a junior synonym of Titanophoneus) demonstrated that the genus Brithopus is a wastebasket taxon and a nomen dubium, composed of the fossils of indeterminate estemmenosuchid-like tapinocephalians and indeterminate anteosaurians; Brithopodidae was also invalidated.

Kamerrer also performed the first phylogenetic analysis which included