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recognition of the
distinctive vertebral anatomy of the best
known stereospondyls of the time, such as
Mastodonsaurus and Metoposaurus. The term 'stereospondylous'...
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group (dissorophoids) or from two
different groups (dissorophoids and
stereospondyls). The
majority of
studies place a
group of
temnospondyls called amphibamiforms...
- Stereospondyli, with
survivors into the
Cretaceous Period. The
largest Tri****ic
stereospondyls, such as Mastodonsaurus, were up to 4 to 6
metres (13 to 20 ft) in length...
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instead argued that
caecilians descend from
extinct lepospondyl or
stereospondyl amphibians,
contradicting evidence for
lissamphibian monophyly (common...
- of all
modern amphibians lived about 315
million years ago, and that
stereospondyl temnospondyls are the
closest relatives to the caecilians. However,...
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large aquatic stereospondyls and the
small terrestrial lissamphibians (the
earliest frogs, salamanders, and caecilians). However,
stereospondyl diversity...
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Chinlestegophis is a
diminutive Late Tri****ic
stereospondyl that has been
interpreted as a ****tive stem caecilian, a
living group of
legless burrowing...
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Stereospondyli and some
Permian temnospondyls that are
similar in
appearance to
stereospondyls,
including the archegosauroids. However,
according to
Schoch and Milner's...
- 2017
study proposed that
caecilians were
related to Chinlestegophis, a
stereospondyl from
strata of the
Chinle Formation in Colorado. This
study was scrutinized...
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Metoposaurus meaning "front lizard" is an
extinct genus of
stereospondyl temnospondyls,
known from the Late Tri****ic of Germany, Italy, Poland, and Portugal...
