''Eoscopus'' is an extinct
genus
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of
dissorophoidea
Dissorophoideans are a clade of medium-sized, temnospondyl amphibians that appeared during the Moscovian in Euramerica, and continued through to the Late Permian and the Early Triassic of Gondwana. They are distinguished by various details of the ...
n
euskelia
Euskelia is a clade of extinct Temnospondyl amphibians. ''Euskelia'' is a stem-based taxon including all temnospondyls more closely related to ''Eryops'' than to ''Parotosuchus
''Parotosuchus'' is an extinct genus of capitosaurian temnospondyl ...
n
temnospondyl
Temnospondyli (from Greek language, Greek τέμνειν, ''temnein'' 'to cut' and σπόνδυλος, ''spondylos'' 'vertebra') is a diverse order (biology), order of small to giant tetrapods—often considered Labyrinthodontia, primitive amphi ...
in the
family
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Micropholidae. It is known from
Hamilton Quarry
Hamilton Quarry is a Late Carboniferous lagerstätte near Hamilton, Kansas, United States. It has a diverse assemblage of unusually well-preserved marine, euryhaline, freshwater, flying, and terrestrial fossils (invertebrates, vertebrates, and pl ...
, a
Late Carboniferous
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lagerstätte
A Lagerstätte (, from ''Lager'' 'storage, lair' '' Stätte'' 'place'; plural ''Lagerstätten'') is a sedimentary deposit that exhibits extraordinary fossils with exceptional preservation—sometimes including preserved soft tissues. These for ...
near
Hamilton, Kansas
Hamilton is a city in Greenwood County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 182.
History
Hamilton was founded about 1879. The city was named in honor of Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the Trea ...
.
[
Members of Micropholidae were historically included in ]Amphibamidae
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 n ...
, but Schoch (2019) recovered Amphibamidae as paraphyletic, necessitating resurrection of Micropholidae for ''Micropholis'' and closely related taxa.
See also
* Prehistoric amphibian
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 ...
* 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
Amphibamids
Dissorophids
Prehistoric amphibian genera
Carboniferous amphibians of North America
Fossil taxa described in 1994
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