Porolepiformes
Porolepiformes Temporal range: Devonian and Carboniferous
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Various genera | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Clade: | Rhipidistia |
Clade: | Dipnomorpha |
Class: | Porolepimorpha |
Order: | †Porolepiformes Jarvik 1942 |
Genera | |
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Porolepiformes is an
Porolepiformes was established by the Swedish paleontologist Erik Jarvik, and were thought to have given rise to the salamanders and caecilians independently of the other tetrapods.[2] He based this conclusion on the shapes of the snouts of the aforementioned groups. This view is no longer in favour in Paleontology.[3]
Jarvik also claimed the existence of
More recent evidence has shown that at least one genus Laccognathus was most likely amphibious.[6]
Phylogeny
Mikko's Phylogeny Archive [7]
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References
- OCLC 951128215.
- ^ Jarvik, Erik. 1980. Basic structure and evolution of vertebrates. Vol. 1–2. Academic Press (London).
- ISBN 978-0-8014-2497-7.
- ^ Clement, G., 2001. Evidence for lack of choanae in the Porolepiformes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 21: 795–802.
- ^ Janvier , P., Early vertebrates. Oxford science publications. 1996, Oxford, New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press.
- S2CID 129696592.
- ^ Haaramo, Mikko (2003). "Porolepiformes". In Mikko's Phylogeny Archive. Retrieved November 4, 2013.