- America. Five
major groups of
lepospondyls are known: Adelospondyli; Aïstopoda; Lysorophia; Microsauria; and Nectridea.
Lepospondyls have a
diverse range of...
- they were
among the
oldest "
lepospondyls"
known from fossils.
Adelospondyls share a
variety of
traits with
other lepospondyls,
although whether these traits...
- and Africa.
Diplocaulus is by far the
largest and best-known of the
lepospondyls,
characterized by a
distinctive boomerang-shaped skull.
Remains attributed...
- the
lepospondyls according to the "
lepospondyl hypothesis", then
Reptiliomorpha refers to
groups that are
closer to
amniotes than to
lepospondyls. Few...
- tetrapods. In the
lepospondyl hypothesis (LH),
lissamphibians are the
sister taxon of
lysorophian lepospondyls,
making lepospondyls tetrapods and temnospondyls...
-
labyrinthodonts gave rise to
lepospondyls, and
lepospondyls to lissamphibians.
Several cladistic studies also
favour the
lepospondyl link,
though placing Lepospondyli...
- of
lepospondyls evolved reduced limbs,
elongated bodies, and
burrowing behaviors, and
morphological studies on
Permian and
Carboniferous lepospondyls have...
-
reptiliomorphs possessed five-fingered hands,
except for the
majority of
lepospondyls.
Lepospondyls (with the
exception of
Diceratosaurus and Urocordylus) possessed...
- species-rich
group of
lepospondyls. Recently,
Microsauria has been
considered paraphyletic, as
several other non-microsaur
lepospondyl groups such as Lysorophia...
- The
clades Re****birostra and Varanopidae,
traditionally thought to be
lepospondyls and
synapsids respectively, may also be
basal sauropsids. The term "Sauropsida"...
