Adelospondyli

Taxobox
name = Adelospondyls
status = fossil

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image_caption = "Adelospondylus".
fossil_range = Mississippian
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
superclassis = Tetrapoda
classis = Amphibia
subclassis = Lepospondyli
ordo = Adelospondyli
ordo_authority = Watson, 1930
familia = Adelogyrinidae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "Adelogyrinus"
"Adelospondylus"
"Dolichopareias"
"Palaeomolgophis"

Adelospondyli are an order of elongate, presumably aquatic, Carboniferous amphibians. The skull is solidly roofed, and elongate, with the orbits located very far forward. The limbs are well developed. There is a single family, the Adelogyrinidae. The group is restricted to the Late Mississippian (Serpukhovian Age) of Scotland.

References

* Carroll, RL (1988), "Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution", WH Freeman & Co.

* von Zittel, K.A (1932), "Textbook of Paleontology", CR Eastman (transl. and ed), 2nd edition, vol.2, p.225, Macmillan & Co.

External links

* [http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Units/Unit170/170.100.html#Adelogyrinidae Adelogyrinidae - Palaeos]