Discosauriscus

Discosauriscus; Temporal range: Gzhelian-Cisuralian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Discosauriscus austriacus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	†Seymouriamorpha
Family:	† Discosauriscidae
Genus:	†Discosauriscus; Kuhn, 1933
Species
	Discosauriscus austriacus (Makowsky, 1876); Discosauriscus pulcherrimus (Fritsch, 1879) (type);
Synonyms
	Letoverpeton Spinar, 1952;

Discosauriscus was a small seymouriamorph^[1] which lived in what is now Central and Western Europe during the latest Carboniferous^[2] and in the Early Permian Period. Its best fossils have been found in the Broumov and Bačov Formations of Boskovice Furrow, in the Czech Republic.

Classification

A reconstruction of a juvenile *Discosauriscus* with external gills

Discosauriscus belongs to the order

Discosauriscidae. Currently recognised are two valid species - Discosauriscus austriacus and Discosauriscus pulcherrimus. Letoverpeton is a junior synonym of Discosauriscus.^[3]

Characteristics

Discosauriscids were long thought to be known from

phalangeal formula was 2-3-4-5-3 for both hind- and forelimbs. The body was covered with rounded scales with concentric rings, and a well-preserved lateral-line system has been described.^[5]

Discosauriscus may have had electroreceptive organs.[9]

References

^ Panchen, A. L. and Smithson, T. R. 1988. The relationships of the earliest tetrapods. Pp. 1–32 in Benton, M. J. (ed), The Phylogeny and Classification of the Tetrapods, Volume 1: Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1882
.

PMC 1691931
.

ISBN 0-7167-1822-7

^ ^a ^b Klembara, Jozef. 1996. Discosauriscus. Version 1 January 1996. http://tolweb.org/Discosauriscus/17544/1996.01.01 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/

PMID 18460423
.

PMID 18312321
.

^ dinosaurier-news - Discosauriscus: Ein Amphibium aus der Permzeit Archived 8 July 2012 at archive.today

^ Klembara, J, Electroreceptors in the Lower Permian tetrapod Discosauriscus austriacus, Palaeontology, Vol 37, part 3, (1994)

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[1] Panchen, A. L. and Smithson, T. R. 1988. The relationships of the earliest tetrapods. Pp. 1–32 in Benton, M. J. (ed), The Phylogeny and Classification of the Tetrapods, Volume 1: Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds. Clarendon Press, Oxford.

[2] doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1882
.

[Klembara-3] PMC 1691931
.

[4] ISBN 0-7167-1822-7

[tolweb.org-5] Klembara, Jozef. 1996. Discosauriscus. Version 1 January 1996. http://tolweb.org/Discosauriscus/17544/1996.01.01 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/

[6] PMID 18460423
.

[K08-7] PMID 18312321
.

[8] saurier-news - Discosauriscus: Ein Amphibium aus der Permzeit Archived 8 July 2012 at archive.today

[9] Klembara, J, Electroreceptors in the Lower Permian tetrapod Discosauriscus austriacus, Palaeontology, Vol 37, part 3, (1994)

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