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Baphetidae is an
extinct family of stem-tetrapods.
Baphetids were
large labyrinthodont predators of the Late
Carboniferous period (Namurian
through Westphalian)...
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characteristics in
common with each. Its
closest relatives may have been
baphetids such as Megalocephalus,
based on the
possession of
slight embayments on...
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which were the
relatives and
ancestors of the Amniota, and
possibly the
baphetids,
which are
thought to be
related to
temnospondyls and
whose status as...
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other baphetids. The
skull of
Megalocephalus was 30
centimetres (12 in) long. The
teeth of
Megalocephalus were long and pointed.
Baphetids had a small...
- 1875. The name
Loxommatoidea was
erected by D.M.S.
Watson in 1929 for
baphetids such as Loxomma,
which were then
known as loxommatids.
Loxommatids were...
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earliest four-limbed vertebrates, such as Acanthostega, Ichthyostega, and
baphetids.
Further back, what
seems to be a pair of lozenge-shape
bones lie at the...
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based on a
small jaw
fragment which shows similarities to Cr****igyrinus,
baphetids, and
crown group tetrapods. This
fossil was
found near
Tantallon Castle...
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tetrapods as lepospondyls, seymouriamorphs, Embolomeri, temnospondyls,
baphetids,
colosteids and
whatcheeriids were.
Michael Benton (2005)
noted that,...
- {{cite book}}: |work=
ignored (help) Clack, J A (1
April 2003). "A new
baphetid (stem tetrapod) from the
Upper Carboniferous of Tyne and Wear, U.K., and...
- the eyes. The
lower jaw
lacks the
distinctive features of some
other baphetids, such as
teeth on the
parasymphysial plate, a
piece of bone that overlies...
