Baphetidae
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Baphetidae is an extinct family of stem-tetrapods. Baphetids were large labyrinthodont predators of the Late Carboniferous period of Europe. Fragmentary remains from the Early Carboniferous of Canada
Loxomma B2
Megalocephalus
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Tetrapod
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A tetrapod is any vertebrate animal of the clade Tetrapoda. The main diagnostic and defining trait of tetrapods is having four limbs, connected to the shoulder- and pelvic girdles, for which the group
Baphetidae
…while many studies have placed the group as a close relative of Amniota, other analyses have found Baphetidae to be a more basal clade of early stem tetrapods. Baphetids were among the first of the Carboniferous fossil tetrapods to be found and were originally described in 1850 by John William Dawson. The…
Tetrapoda
Eusthenopteron, ≈385 Ma
Tiktaalik, ≈375 Ma
Acanthostega, ≈365 Ma