Lepospondyli
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Lepospondyli is a diverse grouping of early tetrapods. With the exception of one late-surviving lepospondyl from the Late Permian of Morocco, lepospondyls lived from the Visean stage of the Early Carb
Diplocaulus fossil, in Musée d'Histoire naturelle et Vivarium, Tournai
Tuditanus, a tuditanid "microsaur"
Pelodosotis, an ostodolepid "microsaur"
Pantylus, a pantylid "microsaur"
Temnospondyli
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Temnospondyli 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 per
Lepospondyli
…a meter in length, but most were much smaller), and they are assumed to have lived in specialized ecological niches not taken by the more numerous temnospondyl amphibians that coexisted with them in the Paleozoic. Lepospondyli was named in 1888 by Karl Alfred von Zittel, who coined the name to include some…
Eryops National Museum of Natural History IMG 1974
A fossil of Sclerocephalus showing a large pectoral girdle and ventral plates
Sangaia lavinai in Paleorrota Geopark
Capetus, a basal temnospondyl.