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Microsaur remains have been
found from
Europe and
North America in Late
Carboniferous and
Early Permian localities. Most
North American microsaurs have...
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nectrideans or adelospondyls, but
finds microsaurs to be
early amniotes, and
places lysorophians within microsaurs. Five main
groups of
lepospondyls are...
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Asaphestera intermedia. Mann et al. (2020) re-evaluated
purported Joggins microsaurs and
found several unusual results. One of the
skulls ****igned the name...
- Maddin,
Hillary C.; Anderson,
Jason S. (2020). "Re****essment of
historic '
microsaurs' from Joggins, Nova Scotia,
reveals hidden diversity in the
earliest amniote...
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three taxa: Lepospondyli,
Temnospondyli and Stereospondyli. He
placed microsaurs in Lepospondyli, a
group which he
characterized as
having simple, spool-shaped...
- two
other classes not
included in Reptilia. Most
species described as
microsaurs,
formerly grouped in the
extinct and
prehistoric amphibian group lepospondyls...
- 26879/1323. Reisz, R. R.; ****, T.; Modesto, S. P. (2024). "Re****birostran '
microsaurs' are not amniotes".
Journal of
Systematic Palaeontology. 22 (1). 2296078...
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evolved from
dissorophoid temnospondyls while caecilians come out of
microsaur lepospondyls,
making both
lepospondyls and
temnospondyls true tetrapods...
- that it had a very
basal position compared to
other microsaurs. For example, no
other microsaurs possessed large intercentra with rib
facets (in the body)...
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Eocaecilia shared some
characteristics with
salamanders and the now
extinct microsaur amphibians. It was of
small size,
about 15 cm in length.
Unlike modern...
