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- (pentadactyly), rather than fins of their sarcopterygian relatives. Stegocephalians include both the modern lineage of limbed vertebrates (the crown group...
- crown group tetrapods and could more accurately be referred to as a stegocephalian or stem tetrapod. Likewise, while undoubtedly of amphibian build and...
- Elginerpeton is a genus of stegocephalian (stem-tetrapod), the fossils of which were recovered from Scat Craig, Morayshire in the UK, from rocks dating...
- of the head in labyrinthodont stegocephalians and primitive Reptilia with special reference to Eotri****ic stegocephalians from East Greenland". Meddelelser...
- and are colloquially sometimes referred to as labyrinthodonts or stegocephalians. The term "amphibians" can be ambiguous, however. In modern phylogeny...
- be reptiles. They were described at various times as batrachians, stegocephalians and labyrinthodonts, although these names are now rarely used. Animals...
- tetrapods, as they all branched out of the same bottlenecked lineage of stegocephalians that survived the Late Devonian extinction. The body plan of tetrapod...
- Phoberomys -saurus reptile, dinosaur Gr**** σαῦρος lizard -stega, -stege stegocephalian Gr**** στέγη roof via their cranium roofs as fossils -suchus, -champsus...
- tetrapodomorphs, on the other hand, evolved into the fully-limbed stegocephalians and later the fully terrestrial tetrapods during the Late Devonian...
- alternative terms for non-crown tetrapods include "stem-tetrapod" or "stegocephalian". Hynerpeton hails from the Red Hill fossil site, which, during the...