Definition of Baphetids. Meaning of Baphetids. Synonyms of Baphetids

- Baphetidae is an extinct family of stem-tetrapods. Baphetids were large labyrinthodont predators of the Late Carboniferous period (Namurian through Westphalian)...
- characteristics in common with each. Its closest relatives may have been baphetids such as Megalocephalus, based on the possession of slight embayments on...
- which were the relatives and ancestors of the Amniota, and possibly the baphetids, which are thought to be related to temnospondyls and whose status as...
- most other baphetids. The skull of Megalocephalus was 30 centimetres (12 in) long. The teeth of Megalocephalus were long and pointed. Baphetids had a small...
- the eyes. The lower jaw lacks the distinctive features of some other baphetids, such as teeth on the parasymphysial plate, a piece of bone that overlies...
- (Anthracosaurus, Palaeoherpeton, Pholiderpeton [formerly Eogyrinus]) and baphetids (Baphetes, Loxomma, Megalocephalus). Typical Westphalian-age marine fossils...
- close relative of baphetids ever since D. M. S. Watson first described it in 1929. Two main features link Spathicephalus with baphetids: antorbital fenestrae...
- based on a small jaw fragment which shows similarities to Cr****igyrinus, baphetids, and crown group tetrapods. This fossil was found near Tantallon Castle...
- to move on land better than other early tetrapods like colosteids and baphetids. Robert Holmes and Robert L. Carroll, the first to describe Caerorhachis...
- 1875. The name Loxommatoidea was erected by D.M.S. Watson in 1929 for baphetids such as Loxomma, which were then known as loxommatids. Loxommatids were...