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LIST OF THE RICHARDS SPUR (FORT SILL)  TETRAPOD PALEOFAUNA

LEPOSPONDYLI

EUREPTILIA

SYNAPSIDA

PARAREPTILIA

DIADECTOMORPHA

ANTHRACOSAUROIDEA

TEMNOSPONDYLI

UNIDENTIFIED TETRAPODS

Stratigraphic chart of the lower Permian (partial)

Phylogenetic Relationships

Content updated April 24, 2006

 

TEMNOSPONDYLI

 

Temnospondyli is a group of tetrapods characterized by the presence of large interpterygoid vacuities, they reduced the number of digits in the forelimb to four. Some of them, as the dissorophoids, reach a great level of terrestriality.

 

Waurika Eryops

Cheliderpeton

Sclerocephalus

Sullivan et Al.  Richards Spur New Dissorophoid

Richards Spur Temnospondyl Skeletal Elements

Branchiosauridae

Micromelerpetontid?