- Carboniferous tetrapods
Carboniferous Tetrapods include amphibians and reptiles that lived during the Carboniferous Period.
During this time,
amphibian s (including many extinct groups unrelated to modern forms, referred to as "basal tetrapods") were the predominant tetrapods, and included theTemnospondyli ,Lepospondyli , andReptiliomorpha /Batrachosauria . The firstamniote s appeared during the middle Carboniferous (Early Pennsylvanian , and included bothSauropsid s andSynapsid s, but it was not until the very end of the Carboniferous that the reptiles began to diversify.Classification
The following list of families of Carboniferous tetrapods is based mostly on Benton ed. 1993. The classification follows [http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=0632056371&site=1 Benton 2004] :
Superclass
Tetrapod a
* Basal Tetrapods:::::* FamilyWhatcheeriidae :::::* Family Crassigyrinidae:::::* Family Baphetidae (Loxommatidae):::::* FamilyColosteidae :::::* FamilyCaerorhachidae
* ClassAmphibia :::* OrderTemnospondyli :::::* FamilyDendrerpetontidae :::::* FamilyCochleosauridae :::::* FamilyTrimerorhachidae :::::* FamilyEugyrinidae :::::* FamilySaurerpetontidae :::::* FamilyEryopidae :::::* FamilyTrematopidae :::::* FamilyDissorophidae :::::* FamilyMicromelerpetontidae :::::* FamilyBranchiosauridae :::::* FamilyAmphibamidae ::* SuperorderLepospondyli :::* OrderAïstopoda :::::* FamilyOphiderpetontidae :::::* FamilyPhlegethontiidae :::* Order Incertae Sedis:::::* FamilyAcherontiscidae :::::* FamilyAdelogyrinidae :::* OrderNectridea :::::* FamilyDiplocaulidae :::::* FamilyScincosauridae :::::* FamilyUrocordylidae :::* OrderMicrosauria :::::* "Utaherpeton ":::::* FamilyMicrobrachidae :::::* FamilyHyloplesiontidae :::::* FamilyOdonterpetontidae :::::* FamilyTuditanidae :::::* FamilyPantylidae :::::* FamilyGymnarthridae :::::* FamilyTrihecatontidae :::::* FamilyCocytinidae ::* SuperorderReptiliomorpha :::* OrderAnthracosauria :::::* FamilyEoherpeton tidae:::::* FamilyProterogyrinidae :::::* FamilyAnthracosauridae :::::* FamilyEogyrinidae :::::* FamilyArcheriidae :::* Order Gephyrostegida:::::* FamilyGephyrostegidae :::* OrderSeymouriamorpha :::::* FamilyDiscosauriscidae :::: Orders/Suborders Uncertain:::::* FamilySolenodonsauridae :::::* "Westlothiana ":::* OrderDiadectomorpha :::::* FamilyLimnoscelididae :::::* FamilyDiadectidae SeriesAmniota
* ClassSauropsida :* BasalEureptilia :::::* FamilyCaptorhinidae :::::* FamilyProtorothyrididae :* SubclassDiapsida :::* OrderAraeoscelidia :::::* FamilyPetrolacosauridae
* ClassSynapsida :::* OrderPelycosaur ia:::::* FamilyVaranopseidae :::::* FamilyOphiacodontidae :::::* FamilyEdaphosauridae :::::* FamilySphenacodontidae See also
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Permian tetrapods References
* Benton, M. J. (2004), "Vertebrate Paleontology", 3rd ed. Blackwell Science Ltd
* ----- (editor), (1993) The fossil record II. London: Chapman and Hall.
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