- (pentadactyly),
rather than fins of
their sarcopterygian relatives.
Stegocephalians include both the
modern lineage of
limbed vertebrates (the
crown group...
- and are
colloquially sometimes referred to as
labyrinthodonts or
stegocephalians. The term "amphibians" can be ambiguous, however. In
modern phylogeny...
-
intermediate between other primitive stegocephalian stem-tetrapods. The
evolutionary tree of
early stegocephalians below follows the
results of one such...
-
Colosteidae is a
family of
stegocephalians (stem-group tetrapods) that
lived in the
Carboniferous period. They
possessed a
variety of characteristics...
-
include the slowworm, gl**** snake, and amphisbaenians.
Other limbless stegocephalians that are
unrelated to
snakes include caecilians (amphibians), and the...
- tetrapods, as they all
branched out of the same
bottlenecked lineage of
stegocephalians that
survived the Late
Devonian extinction. The body plan of tetrapod...
- of the head in
labyrinthodont stegocephalians and
primitive Reptilia with
special reference to Eotri****ic
stegocephalians from East Greenland". Meddelelser...
- "[having] not-visible feet") is an
order of
highly specialised snake-like
stegocephalians known from the
Carboniferous and
Early Permian of
Europe and North...
- be reptiles. They were
described at
various times as batrachians,
stegocephalians and labyrinthodonts,
although these names are now
rarely used. Animals...
- vertebrates, the
stegocephalians. Romer's gap in the
early Carboniferous period (359 to 299 Ma) left
little of the
early stegocephalians, but
allowed vertebrates...
