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Diplocaulus (meaning "double stalk") is an extinct genus of lepospondyl amphibians which lived from the Late Carboniferous to the Late Permian of North America and Africa. Diplocaulus is by far the largest and best-known of the lepospondyls, characterized by a distinctive boomerang -shaped skull .
The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered invalid, doubtful (nomina dubia), or were not formally published (nomina nuda), as well as junior synonyms of more established names, and genera that are no longer considered amphibians. Modern forms are excluded from this list.
Edopoidea is a clade of primitive temnospondyl amphibians including the genus Edops and the family Cochleosauridae.Edopoids are known from the Late Carboniferous and Early Permian of North America and Europe, and the Late Permian of Africa.
List of prehistoric brittle stars; List of prehistoric bryozoan genera; List of prehistoric chitons; List of prehistoric foraminifera genera; List of ichthyosaur genera; List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record; List of plesiosaur genera; List of prehistoric malacostracans; List of prehistoric medusozoan genera; List of prehistoric ...
Baurubatrachus is an extinct genus of prehistoric frogs found in the Maastrichtian Marília Formation of Brazil, formerly considered to be related to the extant family Ceratophryidae. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] However, a detailed assessment of the anatomy and relationships of the single known fossil of Baurubatrachus demonstrated that it is not part of ...
Paleontologists with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History have discovered a previously unknown prehistoric species — a 270 million-year-old amphibian with wide eyes and a ...
Dissorophus (DI-soh-ROH-fus) (meaning "double roof" for two layers of armor) is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian that lived during the Early Permian Period about 273 million years ago. Its fossils have been found in Texas [ 1 ] and in Oklahoma [ 2 ] in North America .
The Albanerpetontidae (also spelled Albanerpetidae and Albanerpetonidae) are an extinct family of small amphibians, native to the Northern Hemisphere during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. The only members of the order Allocaudata, they are thought to be allied with living amphibians belonging to Lissamphibia. Despite a superficially salamander-like ...