- (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...
-
Pederpes ("Peter's Foot") is an
extinct genus of
early Carboniferous stegocephalian,
dating from 348 to 347.6 Ma in the
Tournaisian age (lower Mississippian)...
-
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...
- tetrapods, as they all
branched out of the same
bottlenecked lineage of
stegocephalians that
survived the Late
Devonian extinction. The body plan of tetrapod...
- be reptiles. They were
described at
various times as batrachians,
stegocephalians and labyrinthodonts,
although these names are now
rarely used. Animals...
- and are
colloquially sometimes referred to as
labyrinthodonts or
stegocephalians. The term "amphibians" can be ambiguous, however. In
modern phylogeny...
-
transitional between fish and the
early Stegocephalians, in that it
combines a flat,
heavily armoured stegocephalian skull with a
fishlike tail
bearing fin...
- Paleontology. 50 (5): 799–804. Case,
Ermine C. (1922). "New
reptiles and
Stegocephalians from the
Upper Tri****ic of
western Texas".
Carnegie Institution of...
