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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...
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other classes not
included in Reptilia. Most
species described as
microsaurs,
formerly grouped in the
extinct and
prehistoric amphibian group lepospondyls...
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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...
- 104, 465-504. (doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1934.tb01644.x)
Carroll R. 1966.
Microsaurs from the
Westphalian B of Joggins, Nova Scotia. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond...
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subclass Lepospondyli,
related to
other unusual early tetrapods such as "
microsaurs", "nectrideans", and aïstopods.
Analyses such as Ruta &
Coates (2007)...
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three taxa: Lepospondyli,
Temnospondyli and Stereospondyli. He
placed microsaurs in Lepospondyli, a
group which he
characterized as
having simple, spool-shaped...
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evolved from
dissorophoid temnospondyls while caecilians come out of
microsaur lepospondyls,
making both
lepospondyls and
temnospondyls true tetrapods...
