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Microsaur remains have been
found from
Europe and
North America in Late
Carboniferous and
Early Permian localities. Most
North American microsaurs have...
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nectrideans or adelospondyls, but
finds microsaurs to be
early amniotes, and
places lysorophians within microsaurs. Five main
groups of
lepospondyls are...
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Asaphestera intermedia. Mann et al. (2020) re-evaluated
purported Joggins microsaurs and
found several unusual results. One of the
skulls ****igned the name...
- two
other classes not
included in Reptilia. Most
species described as
microsaurs,
formerly grouped in the
extinct and
prehistoric amphibian group lepospondyls...
- been
shown to be a
paraphyletic or
polyphyletic grouping. Like
other "
microsaurs", the re****birostrans have
traditionally been
considered to be members...
- that it had a very
basal position compared to
other microsaurs. For example, no
other microsaurs possessed large intercentra with rib
facets (in the body)...
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evolved from
dissorophoid temnospondyls while caecilians come out of
microsaur lepospondyls,
making both
lepospondyls and
temnospondyls true tetrapods...
- amphibians, and are not
unique to
microsaurs and caecilians. Schultze, H.-P.; Foreman, B. (1981). "A new
gymnarthrid microsaur from the
Lower Permian of Kansas...
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subclass Lepospondyli,
related to
other unusual early tetrapods such as "
microsaurs", "nectrideans", and aïstopods.
Analyses such as Ruta &
Coates (2007)...
- Clack, who
named this genus,
found it to be most
closely related to
basal microsaurs, such as Asaphestera, Saxonerpeton,
Hyloplesion and Llistrofus. Kirktonecta...
