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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...
- 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)...
- two
other classes not
included in Reptilia. Most
species described as
microsaurs,
formerly grouped in the
extinct and
prehistoric amphibian group lepospondyls...
- 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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Jason S. (5 May 2020). Sansom,
Robert (ed.). "Re****essment of
historic '
microsaurs' from Joggins, Nova Scotia,
reveals hidden diversity in the
earliest amniote...
- Paleothyris, both of
similar build and
presumably similar habit. However,
microsaurs have been at
times considered true reptiles, so an
earlier origin is possible...
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other microsaurs,
tuditanids were short-bodied, with
fewer than 30
presacral vertebrae. The
limbs are
large and well developed.
Unlike other microsaurs such...
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evolved from
dissorophoid temnospondyls while caecilians come out of
microsaur lepospondyls,
making both
lepospondyls and
temnospondyls true tetrapods...
