- C).
Branchiosaurids were
recognized as a
distinct group and
given the
family name by
Fritsch (1879). In 1939
Romer hypothesized that
branchiosaurids were...
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known from
North Africa. They were
biologically similar to the
related branchiosaurids, but
proportionally akin to the
unrelated microsaurs. Micromelerpetontids...
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dissorophoid temnospondyls,
usually with the
focus on
amphibamids and
branchiosaurids. The
temnospondyl hypothesis is the
currently favored or
majority view...
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restricted to
Doleserpeton annectens and
Amphibamus grandiceps by Schoch),
branchiosaurids, and
hypothetically lissamphibians under the
traditional temnospondyl...
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capable of
living on land.
Several types of dissorophoids, such as
branchiosaurids, do not
fully metamorphose, but
retain features of
juveniles such as...
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monophyly of the Amphibamidae, with
recent analyses also
recovering the
branchiosaurids nested within the amphibamids.
Schoch (2018)
erected the new clade...
- Werneburg, R.; Ronchi, A.; Schneider, J. R. W. (2007). "The
Early Permian Branchiosaurids (Amphibia) of
Sardinia (Italy):
Systematic Palaeontology, Palaeoecology...
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occur in
larval specimens or
members of
specialized groups such as the
branchiosaurids. One
living species of
lungfish (Lepidosiren) has
external gills as...
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Schoenfelderpeton is an
extinct genus of
branchiosaurid temnospondyls. It is a
sister taxon to
Leptorophus tener. "†Schoenfelderpeton Boy 1986 (tetrapod)"...
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Branchiosaurus (from Gr****: βράγχιον bránkhion, 'gill' and Gr****: σαῦρος saûros, 'lizard') is a
genus of small,
prehistoric amphibians.
Fossils have been...
