Apodops

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Apodops
Temporal range:
Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Gymnophiona
Clade: Apoda
Family: Caeciliidae
Genus: Apodops
Estes & Wake 1972
Type species
Apodops pricei
Estes & Wake 1972

Apodops is an

extinct genus of early caecilians from the Early Eocene Itaboraí Formation of Brazil.[1] The type species of the genus is A. pricei, described based on an isolated and broken trunk vertebra.[2][3]

References

Further reading

  • Barcelos, L.A., Santos, R.O. The Lissamphibian Fossil Record of South America. Palaeobio Palaeoenv (2022).
  • R. Estes and M. H. Wake. 1972. The first fossil record of caecilian amphibians. Nature 239:228-231
  • Biology of Amphibians by William E. Duellman and Linda Trueb
  • The Big Book Of Dinosaurs by David Norman
  • Amphibians: The World of Frogs, Toads, Salamanders and Newts by Robert Hofrichter
  • Colbert's Evolution of the Vertebrates: A History of the Backboned Animals Through Time by Edwin H. Colbert, Michael Morales, and Eli C. Minkoff