Seymouria
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Seymouria is an extinct genus of seymouriamorph from the Early Permian of North America and Europe. Although they were amphibians, Seymouria were well-adapted to life on land, with many reptilian feat
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Outdated depiction of Seymouria as a primitive egg-laying terrestrial reptile, from a series of paintings by F.L. Jaques illustrating the "progressive" stages of evolution from fish to man for the American Museum of Natural History in the 1930s
A replica of the Cutler Formation block containing six Seymouria sanjuanensis skeletons, described by Berman, Reisz, & Eberth (1987)
A cast of the "Tambach lovers" Seymouria sanjuanensis specimen first described by Berman et al. (2000)
Discosauriscus
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Discosauriscus was a small seymouriamorph which lived in what is now Central and Western Europe during the latest Carboniferous and in the Early Permian Period. Its best fossils have been found in the
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…idea that Seymouria was primarily terrestrial, spending very little time in the water. However, in the 1950s, fossilized tadpoles were discovered in Discosauriscus, which was a close relative of Seymouria in the group Seymouriamorpha. This shows that seymouriamorphs (including Seymouria) had a larval stage which…
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A reconstruction of a juvenile Discosauriscus with external gills
Fossil in Vienna