Adelospondyli
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| Lower Carboniferous ( Serpukhovium ) | ||||||||||||
| 330.9 to 323.2 million years | ||||||||||||
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| Adelospondyli | ||||||||||||
| Watson , 1930 |
Adelospondyli are a fossil taxon of amphibian-like terrestrial vertebrates . They are in the group of Hüllenwirbler classified (lepospondyli) and lived during the early Carboniferous to the early Permian in Europe and North America. Only four genera from the upper Lower Carboniferous region of Scotland have been described.
features
They had a massive skull roof, the bones of which were arranged in a characteristic way. The teeth were also characteristic. The eyes were far ahead. The trunk was elongated, with at least 70 holospondyles (a coil-shaped vertebral body made up of a single ossification) vertebrae . Limb belts were provided.
Genera
literature
- Robert L. Carroll : Paleontology and Evolution of the Vertebrates. Thieme, Stuttgart et al. 1993, ISBN 3-13-774401-6 .
- Sheila Mahala Andrews, Robert Lynn Carroll: The Order Adelospondyli: Carboniferous Lepospondyl amphibians . In: Transactions Of The Royal Society Of Edinburgh Earth Sciences . tape 82 , no. 3 , 1991, ISSN 0263-5933 , pp. 239-275 .
Web links
Commons : Adelospondyli - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Palæos Adelogyrinidae