List of Carboniferous tetrapods
Carboniferous tetrapods include amphibians and reptiles that lived during the Carboniferous Period. Though stem-tetrapods originated in the preceding Devonian, it was in the earliest Carboniferous that the first crown tetrapods appeared, with full scaleless skin and five digits.
During this time,
synapsids, but it was not until the very end of the Carboniferous, during a rainforest collapse
, and afterwards that they began to diversify.
Classification
The following list of families of Carboniferous tetrapods is based mostly on Benton ed. 1993. The classification follows Benton 2004:
Superclass Tetrapoda
- Basal Tetrapods
- Family Whatcheeriidae
- Family Crassigyrinidae
- Family Baphetidae(Loxommatidae)
- Family Colosteidae
- Family Caerorhachidae
- Class Amphibia
- Order Temnospondyli
- Family Dendrerpetontidae
- Family Cochleosauridae
- Family Trimerorhachidae
- Family Eugyrinidae
- Family Saurerpetontidae
- Family Eryopidae
- Family Trematopidae
- Family Dissorophidae
- Family Micromelerpetontidae
- Family Branchiosauridae
- Family Amphibamidae
- Superorder Lepospondyli
- Incertae Sedis
- Family Acherontiscidae
- Family Adelogyrinidae
- Family
- Order Aïstopoda
- Family Ophiderpetontidae
- Family Phlegethontiidae
- Family
- Order Nectridea
- Family Diplocaulidae
- Family Scincosauridae
- Family Urocordylidae
- Order Microsauria
- Utaherpeton
- Family Microbrachidae
- Family Hyloplesiontidae
- Family Odonterpetontidae
- Family Tuditanidae
- Family Pantylidae
- Family Gymnarthridae
- Family Trihecatontidae
- Family Cocytinidae
- Superorder Reptiliomorpha
- Order/suborder uncertain (incerti (sub)ordinis)
- Family Solenodonsauridae
- Westlothiana
- Order Anthracosauria
- Family Eoherpetontidae
- Family Proterogyrinidae
- Family Anthracosauridae
- Family Eogyrinidae
- Family Archeriidae
- Order Gephyrostegida
- Family Gephyrostegidae
- Order Seymouriamorpha
- Family Discosauriscidae
- Family
- Order Diadectomorpha
- Family Limnoscelididae
- Family Diadectidae
- Order/suborder uncertain (incerti (sub)ordinis)
- Order Temnospondyli
Series
Amniota
- Class Sauropsida
- Basal Eureptilia
- Family Captorhinidae
- Family Protorothyrididae
- Subclass Diapsida
- Order Araeoscelidia
- Family Petrolacosauridae
- Family
- Order Araeoscelidia
- Basal Eureptilia
- Class Synapsida
- Order Pelycosauria
- Family Varanopidae
- Family Ophiacodontidae
- Family Edaphosauridae
- Family Sphenacodontidae
- Order Pelycosauria
See also
References
- Benton, M. J.(2004), Vertebrate Paleontology, 3rd ed. Blackwell Science Ltd
- ----- (editor), (1993) The fossil record II. London: Chapman and Hall.