Adelospondyli

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Adelospondyls
Fossil range: Mississippian
Adelospondylus.
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Superclass: Tetrapoda
Class: Amphibia
Subclass: Lepospondyli
Order: Adelospondyli
Watson, 1930
Family: Adelogyrinidae
Genera

Adelogyrinus
Adelospondylus
Dolichopareias
Palaeomolgophis

Adelospondyli are an order of elongate, presumably aquatic, Carboniferous amphibians. The skull is solidly roofed, and elongate, with the orbits located very far forward. The limbs are well developed. There is a single family, the Adelogyrinidae. The group is restricted to the Late Mississippian (Serpukhovian Age) of Scotland.

[edit] References

  • Carroll, RL (1988), Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, WH Freeman & Co.
  • von Zittel, K.A (1932), Textbook of Paleontology, CR Eastman (transl. and ed), 2nd edition, vol.2, p.225, Macmillan & Co.

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