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Scincosauridae
The Scincosauridae are an extinct family of nectridean lepospondyl Lepospondyli is a diverse taxon of early tetrapods. With the exception of one late-surviving lepospondyl from the Late Permian of Morocco (''Diplocaulus minumus''), lepospondyls lived from the Early Carboniferous ( Mississippian) to the Early Per ... amphibians. It includes the genera '' Scincosaurus'' and '' Sauravus''. Unlike most other nectrideans, scincosaurids are thought to have been terrestrial. References Carboniferous amphibians Pennsylvanian first appearances Pennsylvanian extinctions Holospondyls {{carboniferous-animal-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nectridean
Nectridea is the name of an extinct order of lepospondyl tetrapods from the Carboniferous and Permian periods, including animals such as ''Diplocaulus''. In appearance, they would have resembled modern newts or aquatic salamanders, although they are not close relatives of modern amphibians. They were characterized by long, flattened tails to aid in swimming, as well as numerous features of the vertebrae. Description Nectrideans are a diverse group of tetrapods, including the aquatic Urocordylidae, the presumably terrestrial Scincosauridae, and the bizarre horned members of Diplocaulidae (also known as Keraterpetonidae), which includes the "boomerang-headed" ''Diplocaulus'', one of the most famous genera of prehistoric amphibians (in the traditional sense of the word). By the time the earliest known nectrideans appeared in the Late Carboniferous fossil record, they had already diversified into these families, indicating that basal nectrideans are unknown. These different fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scincosaurus Crassus
''Scincosaurus'' is an extinct genus of nectridean lepospondyl within the family Scincosauridae. History ''Scincosaurus crassus'' was first described by Bohemian paleontologist Antonín Frič in volume 1875 of "''Sitzungsberichte der königlichen Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften in Prague''", which at that time was the premiere scientific journal of Bohemia (the modern day Czech Republic). Frič's contribution to this volume was a list of Carboniferous animals he and his associates recently discovered at coal gas mines near the localities of Nýřany and Kounová. His list included short preliminary descriptions for many new genera and species of tetrapods, including '' Microbrachis, Branchiosaurus, Hyloplesion'' (at that time called ''Stelliosaurus''), and ''Sparodus.'' ''Scincosaurus crassus'' was among the new tetrapods from Nýřany, and its short description (erroneously) considered it a robust lacertilian ( lizard), possibly related to ''Sparodus''. A much ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scincosaurus
''Scincosaurus'' is an extinct genus of nectridean lepospondyl within the family Scincosauridae. History ''Scincosaurus crassus'' was first described by Bohemian paleontologist Antonín Frič in volume 1875 of "''Sitzungsberichte der königlichen Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften in Prague''", which at that time was the premiere scientific journal of Bohemia (the modern day Czech Republic). Frič's contribution to this volume was a list of Carboniferous animals he and his associates recently discovered at coal gas mines near the localities of Nýřany and Kounová. His list included short preliminary descriptions for many new genera and species of tetrapods, including '' Microbrachis, Branchiosaurus, Hyloplesion'' (at that time called ''Stelliosaurus''), and ''Sparodus.'' ''Scincosaurus crassus'' was among the new tetrapods from Nýřany, and its short description (erroneously) considered it a robust lacertilian ( lizard), possibly related to ''Sparodus''. A m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sauravus
''Sauravus'' is an extinct genus of nectridean lepospondyl within the family Scincosauridae. Species The type species of ''Sauravus, Sauravus costei,'' is known from Blanzy, a town in the Saône-et-Loire department of France. This town and its adjacent community Montceau-les-Mines possess containing abundant Carboniferous fossils. These fossils are believed to have been from the Stephanian B stage of the Late Carboniferous, approximately 305 to 304 million years ago. ''Sauravus cambrayi'' is known from Les Télots, a mine near Autun, Saône-et-Loire, France. Télots is the type locality of the Autunian stage, a period of time which is believed to correspond to part of the early Permian period. The geological formation which Télots fossils belong to is known as the Millery Formation. The specific part of the Permian which this formation belongs to was unclear for many years. In 2014, Schneider ''et al.'' suggested that the Millery Formation dated to the middle Artinskian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Late Carboniferous
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1909 In Paleontology
Arthropods Newly named insects Archosauromorphs Newly named dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. Plesiosaurs New taxa Synapsids Non-mammalian People * Death of Harry Govier Seeley, the paleontologist who invented the Saurischian/Ornithischian Ornithischia () is an extinct order of mainly herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by a pelvic structure superficially similar to that of birds. The name ''Ornithischia'', or "bird-hipped", reflects this similarity and is derived from the Greek st ... dinosaur dichotomy. References {{portal, Paleontology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepospondyl
Lepospondyli is a diverse taxon of early tetrapods. With the exception of one late-surviving lepospondyl from the Late Permian of Morocco (''Diplocaulus minumus''), lepospondyls lived from the Early Carboniferous ( Mississippian) to the Early Permian and were geographically restricted to what is now Europe and North America. Five major groups of lepospondyls are known: Adelospondyli; Aïstopoda; Lysorophia; Microsauria; and Nectridea. Lepospondyls have a diverse range of body forms and include species with newt-like, eel- or snake-like, and lizard-like forms. Various species were aquatic, semiaquatic, or terrestrial. None were large (the biggest genus, the diplocaulid ''Diplocaulus'', reached a meter in length, but most were much smaller), and they are assumed to have lived in specialized ecological niches not taken by the more numerous temnospondyl amphibians that coexisted with them in the Paleozoic. Lepospondyli was named in 1888 by Karl Alfred von Zittel, who coined the name t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amphibian
Amphibians are tetrapod, four-limbed and ectothermic vertebrates of the Class (biology), class Amphibia. All living amphibians belong to the group Lissamphibia. They inhabit a wide variety of habitats, with most species living within terrestrial animal, terrestrial, fossorial, arboreal or freshwater aquatic ecosystems. Thus amphibians typically start out as larvae living in water, but some species have developed behavioural adaptations to bypass this. The young generally undergo metamorphosis from larva with gills to an adult air-breathing form with lungs. Amphibians use their skin as a secondary respiratory surface and some small terrestrial salamanders and frogs lack lungs and rely entirely on their skin. They are superficially similar to reptiles like lizards but, along with mammals and birds, reptiles are amniotes and do not require water bodies in which to breed. With their complex reproductive needs and permeable skins, amphibians are often ecological indicators; in re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carboniferous Amphibians
The Carboniferous ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, million years ago. The name ''Carboniferous'' means "coal-bearing", from the Latin '' carbō'' ("coal") and '' ferō'' ("bear, carry"), and refers to the many coal beds formed globally during that time. The first of the modern 'system' names, it was coined by geologists William Conybeare and William Phillips in 1822, based on a study of the British rock succession. The Carboniferous is often treated in North America as two geological periods, the earlier Mississippian and the later Pennsylvanian. Terrestrial animal life was well established by the Carboniferous Period. Tetrapods (four limbed vertebrates), which had originated from lobe-finned fish during the preceding Devonian, became pentadactylous in and diversified during the Carboniferous, including early amphibian line ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennsylvanian First Appearances
Pennsylvanian may refer to: * A person or thing from Pennsylvania * Pennsylvanian (geology), a geological subperiod of the Carboniferous Period * Pennsylvanian (train), ''Pennsylvanian'' (train), an Amtrak train {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennsylvanian Extinctions
Pennsylvanian may refer to: * A person or thing from Pennsylvania * Pennsylvanian (geology) The Pennsylvanian ( , also known as Upper Carboniferous or Late Carboniferous) is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy, ICS geologic timescale, the younger of two period (geology), subperiods (or upper of two system (stratigraphy), s ..., a geological subperiod of the Carboniferous Period * ''Pennsylvanian'' (train), an Amtrak train {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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