Holospondyli

Holospondyli
Temporal range: Early Carboniferous - Late Permian
Life restoration of Diploceraspis burkei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: "Amphibia" (wide sense)
Subclass: Lepospondyli
Node: Holospondyli
Thomson & Bossy, 1970

Holospondyli is a proposed clade of lepospondyl amphibians from the Early Carboniferous to the Late Permian[1] that includes the aistopods, the paraphyletic nectrideans, and possibly also Adelospondyli.[2]

References

  1. Germain, D. (2010). "The Moroccan diplocaulid: The last lepospondyl, the single one on Gondwana". Historical Biology 22: 4–3. doi:10.1080/08912961003779678.
  2. Marcello Ruta, Michael I. Coates and Donald L. J. Quicke (2003). "Early tetrapod relationships revisited". Biological Reviews 78 (2): 251–345. doi:10.1017/S1464793102006103. PMID 12803423.