Carboniferous tetrapods

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Carboniferous Tetrapods include amphibians and reptiles that lived during the Carboniferous Period.

During this time, amphibians (including many extinct groups unrelated to modern forms, referred to as "basal tetrapods") were the predominant tetrapods, and included the Temnospondyli, Lepospondyli, and Reptiliomorpha/Batrachosauria. The first amniotes appeared during the middle Carboniferous (Early Pennsylvanian, and included both Sauropsids and Synapsids, but it was not until the very end of the Carboniferous that the reptiles began to diversify.

[edit] Classification

The following list of families of Carboniferous tetrapods is based mostly on Benton ed. 1993. The classification follows Benton 2004:

Superclass Tetrapoda

  • Basal Tetrapods
  • Family Dendrerpetontidae
  • Family Cochleosauridae
  • Family Trimerorhachidae
  • Family Eugyrinidae
  • Family Saurerpetontidae
  • Family Eryopidae
  • Family Trematopidae
  • Family Dissorophidae
  • Family Micromelerpetontidae
  • Family Branchiosauridae
  • Family Amphibamidae
  • Order Incertae Sedis
  • Family Acherontiscidae
  • Family Adelogyrinidae
  • Family Diplocaulidae
  • Family Scincosauridae
  • Family Urocordylidae
  • Utaherpeton
  • Family Microbrachidae
  • Family Hyloplesiontidae
  • Family Odonterpetontidae
  • Family Tuditanidae
  • Family Pantylidae
  • Family Gymnarthridae
  • Family Trihecatontidae
  • Family Cocytinidae
  • Order Gephyrostegida
  • Family Gephyrostegidae
Orders/Suborders Uncertain

Series Amniota

  • Family Petrolacosauridae

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  • Benton, M. J. (2004), Vertebrate Paleontology, 3rd ed. Blackwell Science Ltd
  • ----- (editor), (1993) The fossil record II. London: Chapman and Hall.