Diplocaulidae

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Diplocaulidae
Life restoration of Diplocaulus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Clade: Tetrapodomorpha
Order: †Nectridea
Family: †Diplocaulidae
Cope, 1881
Subgroups

See text.

Synonyms

Diplocaulidae ("horned crawlers")[citation needed] is an extinct family of lepospondyl amphibians that arose during the Late Carboniferous and died out in the Late Permian.[1]

Diploceraspis burkei

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram modified from Germain (2010):[1]

Nectridea 

References

  1. ^ a b Germain, D. (2010). "The Moroccan diplocaulid: the last lepospondyl, the single one on Gondwana". Historical Biology. 22 (1–3): 4–39. doi:10.1080/08912961003779678.


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