-
cladogram modified from
Germain (2010): Germain, D. (2010). "The
Moroccan diplocaulid: the last lepospondyl, the
single one on Gondwana".
Historical Biology...
- to
modern amphibians. Both
diplocaulids and
urocordylids are
considered to be
completely aquatic,
although only
diplocaulids possess lateral line canals...
- semiaquatic, or terrestrial. None were
large (the
biggest genus, the
diplocaulid Diplocaulus,
reached a
meter in length, but most were much smaller),...
- an
ostodolepid "microsaur" from the
group Lepospondyli Diplocaulus, a
diplocaulid "nectridean" from the
group Lepospondyli Kotl****ia, an
aquatic seymouriamorph...
-
pusillus specimens as the
basis for
Platyops parvus, a new
genus of
diplocaulid. In 1946, E.C. Case
revised Williston's name to
Permoplatyops parvus...
-
limbatus Junior synonym of D.
magnicornis D.
magnicornis An
abundant diplocaulid nectridean D.
primigenius May be
synonymous with D.
magnicornis Euryodus...
-
urocordylid nectridean Diceratosaurus brevirostris Linton An
abundant diplocaulid nectridean Molgophis macrurus Linton A rare
lysorophian Oestocephalus...
-
other diplocaulids by the
absence of a postorbital.
Below is a
cladogram modified from
Germain (2010): Germain, D. (2010). "The
Moroccan diplocaulid: the...
-
namely "microsaurs" and a few "nectrideans" such as
Scincosaurus and
diplocaulids.
Adelospondyls take this one step further. They
possess only a single...
-
features of
other members of the group, such as the
tabular horns of
diplocaulids. However, some
recent phylogenetic analyses of
lepospondyls have not...
