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Limnerpeton
''Limnerpeton'' is an extinct genus of dissorophoidean euskelian temnospondyl within the family Amphibamidae. Taxonomy ''Limnerpeton'' is currently restricted to the type species ''L. modestum'', which is dubious but represents an amphibamid. The nominal species ''"Limnerpeton" laticeps'' was later assigned to the trematopid '' Mordex'' but has been placed in a separate trematopid genus '' Mattauschia'' following Milner (2018). The nominal species ''L." macrolepis'' was synonymized with ''laticeps'' by Milner and Sequeira (2003) and Milner (2018). ''"Limnerpeton" elegans'' was reassigned to Micromelerpetontidae and renamed ''Limnogyrinus'' by Milner (1986). ''"Limnerpeton" caducus'' is a junior synonym of '' Oestocephalus'', while ''"Limnerpeton" obtusatum'' was synonymized with '' Microbrachis'' by Carroll and Gaskill (1978).Carroll, R.L. and Gaskill, P. 1978. The Order Microsauria. Memoir of the American Philosophical Society 126: 1–211. See also * Prehistoric amphibian * L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mattauschia
''Mattauschia'' is an extinct genus of trematopid temnospondyls from the Late Carboniferous of the Czech Republic. Taxonomy The type species of ''Mattauschia'', ''M. laticeps'', was named ''Limnerpeton laticeps'' by Fritsch (1881) for a small post-metamorphic specimen from Late Carboniferous coal deposits in the Czech Republic. Milner and Sequeira (2003) synonymized it and the nominal species ''Limnerpeton macrolepis'' with ''Mordex, Mordex calliprepes'', interpreting them as representing growth stages of one trematopid species.Milner, A.R. and Sequeira, S.E.K. 2003. Revision of the amphibian genus Limnerpeton (Temnospondyli) from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48 (1): 123–141. Milner (2018) eventually recognized ''laticeps'' as distinct from the ''M. calliprepes'' holotype, so he erected ''Mattauschia'' for ''laticeps'', which includes the lectotype specimen NMP M470/471 as well as the paralectotype NMP M639 and ''Limnerpeton macrol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Prehistoric Amphibians
This list of prehistoric amphibians is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all Genus, genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be amphibians, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered invalid, doubtful (''nomen dubium, nomina dubia''), or were not formally published (''nomen nudum, nomina nuda''), as well as synonym (zoology), junior synonyms of more established names, and genera that are no longer considered amphibians. Modern forms are excluded from this list. The list currently includes 454 names. Naming conventions and terminology Naming conventions and terminology follow the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Technical terms used include: * Synonym (zoology), Junior synonym: A name which describes the same taxon as a previously published name. If two or more genera are formally designated and the type (zoology), type specimens are later assigned to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prehistoric Amphibian
This list of prehistoric amphibians is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be amphibians, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered invalid, doubtful ('' nomina dubia''), or were not formally published (''nomina nuda''), as well as junior synonyms of more established names, and genera that are no longer considered amphibians. Modern forms are excluded from this list. The list currently includes 454 names. Naming conventions and terminology Naming conventions and terminology follow the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Technical terms used include: * Junior synonym: A name which describes the same taxon as a previously published name. If two or more genera are formally designated and the type specimens are later assigned to the same genus, the first to be published (in chronological order) is the senior syn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micromelerpetontidae
Micromelerpetontidae (also spelled Micromelerpetidae) is an extinct family of dissorophoid temnospondyl amphibians that lived from the Late Carboniferous to the Early Permian in what is now Europe, with one Carboniferous species also known from North Africa. They were biologically similar to the related branchiosaurids, but proportionally akin to the unrelated microsaurs. Micromelerpetontids were neotenic and aquatic, similar to their relatives the branchiosaurids. They had lateral line grooves, poorly ossified skulls and limbs, and evidence of external gills External gills are the gills of an animal, most typically an amphibian, that are exposed to the environment, rather than set inside the pharynx and covered by gill slits, as they are in most fishes. Instead, the respiratory organs are set on a fril .... However, they had a higher number of vertebrae (and therefore more elongated bodies) compared to branchiosaurids, as well as thick, bony scales covering the belly and lim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Late Carboniferous
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Family (biology)
Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amphibamids
The Amphibamidae are an extinct family of dissorophoid temnospondyls known from Late Carboniferous- Early Permian strata in the United States. Classification Amphibamidae has traditionally included small-bodied, terrestrial dissorophoids. The name is attributed to Moodie (1909), but it was rarely used because it originally referred only to ''Amphibamus''. Similar monogeneric families were also erected for other small, terrestrial dissorophoids (e.g., Doleserpetontidae), and most of the taxa now recognized as amphibamiforms were placed within the Dissorophidae. Clack & Milner (1993) revived the Amphibamidae to include ''Amphibamus, Platyrhinops, Doleserpeton,'' and ''Tersomius'.'' Daly (1994) further expanded the composition of the Amphibamidae to include the newly described ''Eoscopus'' as well as the Early Triassic form ''Micropholis''. She suggested that the micromelerpetids were also amphibamids, which has not been validated by more recent workers. Subsequent phylogenetic w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microbrachis
''Microbrachis'' is an extinct genus of lepospondyl amphibian from the Carboniferous Kladno Formation of the Czech Republic. Description ''Microbrachis'' was an elongated, salamander-like creature, about long, with over 40 vertebrae instead of the average 15–26 in its living relatives. It had minute limbs, and probably swam using fish-like lateral body movements. ''Microbrachis'' probably fed on fresh water plankton such as shrimp. ''Microbrachis'' was pedomorphic, retaining its larval gills in adulthood. Similar traits are found in the extant axolotl The axolotl (; from nci, āxōlōtl ), ''Ambystoma mexicanum'', is a paedomorphic salamander closely related to the tiger salamander. Axolotls are unusual among amphibians in that they reach adulthood without undergoing metamorphosis. I .... References Further reading * Andrew R. Milner, "The Tetrapod Assemblage from Nýrany, Czechoslovakia", in Systematics Association Special Volume No.15, "The Terrest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oestocephalus
''Oestocephalus'' is an extinct genus of aïstopod Stegocephalian that lived during the Carboniferous period. Fossils have been found in the Czech Republic, and in Ohio and Illinois in the United States. It is the type genus of the family Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Idea ... Oestocephalidae, although it used to be assigned to the family Ophiderpetontidae, which is now considered paraphyletic.Anderson, J. S. (2003). Cranial anatomy of ''Coloraderpeton brilli'', postcranial anatomy of ''Oestocephalus amphiuminus'', and reconsideration of Ophiderpentontidae (Tetrapoda: Lepospondyli: Aistopoda). ''Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology'' 23(3):532-543. It was named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1868 and now contains two species, ''O. amphiuminus'' and ''O. nanum''. See als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limnogyrinus
''Limnogyrinus'' is an extinct genus of dissorophoidean euskelian temnospondyl within the family Micromelerpetontidae. See also * Prehistoric amphibian * List of prehistoric amphibians This list of prehistoric amphibians is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be amphibians, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted g ... References Dissorophoids Prehistoric amphibian genera Carboniferous temnospondyls of Europe Permian temnospondyls of Europe Fossil taxa described in 1986 {{Permian-animal-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordex
''Mordex'' is an extinct genus of temnospondyls from Carboniferous of the Czech Republic. See also * Prehistoric amphibian * List of prehistoric amphibians This list of prehistoric amphibians is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all Genus, genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be amphibians, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accep ... References Dissorophids Prehistoric amphibian genera Carboniferous temnospondyls of Europe Fossil taxa described in 1938 {{temnospondyli-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temnospondyl
Temnospondyli (from Greek τέμνειν, ''temnein'' 'to cut' and σπόνδυλος, ''spondylos'' 'vertebra') is a diverse order of small to giant tetrapods—often considered primitive amphibians—that flourished worldwide during the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic periods. A few species continued into the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Fossils have been found on every continent. During about 210 million years of evolutionary history, they adapted to a wide range of habitats, including freshwater, terrestrial, and even coastal marine environments. Their life history is well understood, with fossils known from the larval stage, metamorphosis, and maturity. Most temnospondyls were semiaquatic, although some were almost fully terrestrial, returning to the water only to breed. These temnospondyls were some of the first vertebrates fully adapted to life on land. Although temnospondyls are considered amphibians, many had characteristics, such as scales and armour-like bony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
