Lepospondyl

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Lepospondyli

The Lepospondyli are a large group of batrachomorph tetrapods from the Palaeozoic era. They are sometimes included in the Labyrinthodonts.

They lived during the Carboniferous to the early Permian. There are six different groups. The Acherontiscidae, Adelospondyli, Aïstopoda, Lysorophia, Microsauria and Nectridea. The included species which looked somewhat like newts, eels, snakes and lizards. Some of them were aquatic, semi-aquatic, and terrestrial animals. None of them were big animals.

Lepospondyl Media

• Marjanovic & Laurin 2009 tree from SOM

• Tuditanus1DB.jpg

  Tuditanus, a tuditanid "microsaur"

• Pelodosotis1DB.jpg

  Pelodosotis, an ostodolepid "microsaur"

• Pantylus1DB.jpg

  Pantylus, a pantylid "microsaur"

• Hyloplesion.jpg

  Hyloplesion, a "microsaur"

• Brachydectes NT small.jpg

  Brachydectes, a lysorophian

• Adelospondylus, an adelospondyl

• Oestocephalus.jpg

  Oestocephalus, an early aïstopod

• Phlegethontia NT small.jpg

  Phlegethontia, an aïstopod

• Diploceraspis12DB.jpg

  Diploceraspis, a diplocaulid "nectridean"

Other websites

• Lepospondyli - Palaeos Archived 2005-04-09 at the Wayback Machine
• Lepospondyli Archived 2005-04-20 at the Wayback Machine
• Lepospondyli - phylogeny Archived 2007-12-31 at the Wayback Machine