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Carboniferous is the period during which both terrestrial animal and land plant life was well established. [10] Stegocephalia (four-limbed vertebrates including true tetrapods ), whose forerunners ( tetrapodomorphs ) had evolved from lobe-finned fish during the preceding Devonian period, became pentadactylous during the Carboniferous. [ 11 ]
After the Carboniferous rainforest collapse amphibian dominance gave way to reptiles, [26] and amphibians were further devastated by the Permian–Triassic extinction event. [27] During the Triassic Period (252 to 201 million years ago), the reptiles continued to out-compete the amphibians, leading to a reduction in both the amphibians' size ...
Carboniferous amphibians of North America (2 C, 6 P) 0–9. Pennsylvanian amphibians (3 C) C. Carboniferous temnospondyls (3 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Carboniferous ...
In the middle or late Carboniferous, smaller forms gave rise to the first reptiles. [29] In the late Carboniferous, a global rainforest collapse favoured the more terrestrially adapted reptiles, while the many of their amphibian relatives failed to reestablish. [42] Some reptile-like amphibians did flourish in the new seasonal environment.
Temnospondyli (from Greek τέμνειν, temnein 'to cut' and σπόνδυλος, spondylos 'vertebra') or temnospondyls is a diverse ancient order of small to giant tetrapods—often considered primitive amphibians—that flourished worldwide during the Carboniferous, Permian and Triassic periods, with fossils being found on every continent.
Prehistoric animals of the Carboniferous period, during the Paleozoic Era See also the preceding Category:Devonian animals and the succeeding Category:Permian animals Subcategories
The world’s frogs, salamanders, newts and other amphibians remain in serious trouble. A new global assessment has found that 41% of amphibian species that scientists have studied are threatened ...
Carboniferous tetrapods include amphibians and reptiles that lived during the Carboniferous Period. Though stem-tetrapods originated in the preceding Devonian , it was in the earliest Carboniferous that the first crown tetrapods appeared, with full scaleless skin and five digits.