![Brachydectes skull](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Brachydectes_skull.PNG)
''Brachydectes'' is an
extinct genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
lysorophia
Lysorophia is an order of fossorial Carboniferous and Permian tetrapods within the Recumbirostra. Lysorophians resembled small snakes, as their bodies are extremely elongate. There is a single family, the Molgophidae (previously known as Lysoroph ...
n
amphibian that lived from the
Carboniferous. It had a very small
head (skull length about 1.7 cm) and an elongated body up to 43 cm long.
[http://www.angellis.net/Web/PDfiles/amphs.pdf ]
References
* ''Gaining Ground: The Origin and Early Evolution of Tetrapods'' by Jennifer A. Clack
* ''Amniote Origins: Completing the Transition to Land'' by Stuart Sumida and Karen L.M Martin
Lysorophians
Carboniferous amphibians
Permian amphibians
Paleozoic amphibians of North America
Paleozoic amphibians of Europe
Prehistoric amphibian genera
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