Holospondyli is a proposed clade of lepospondyls from the Early Carboniferous to the Late Permian[1] that includes the aistopods, the paraphyletic nectrideans, and possibly also Adelospondyli.[2] However, aistopods have since been recovered as stem-tetrapods more primitive than temnospondyls or other groups of lepospondyls.[3]

Holospondyli
Life restoration of Diploceraspis burkei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Clade: Tetrapodomorpha
Subclass: Lepospondyli
Node: Holospondyli
Thomson & Bossy, 1970

References

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  1. ^ Germain, D. (2010). "The Moroccan diplocaulid: The last lepospondyl, the single one on Gondwana". Historical Biology. 22 (1–3): 4–39. Bibcode:2010HBio...22....4G. doi:10.1080/08912961003779678. S2CID 128605530.
  2. ^ Marcello Ruta, Michael I. Coates and Donald L. J. Quicke (2003). "Early tetrapod relationships revisited" (PDF). Biological Reviews. 78 (2): 251–345. doi:10.1017/S1464793102006103. PMID 12803423. S2CID 31298396. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-05-22. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
  3. ^ ^ Jason D. Pardo, Matt Szostakiwskyj, Per E. Ahlberg & Jason S. Anderson (2017) Hidden morphological diversity among early tetrapods. Nature (advance online publication) doi:10.1038/nature22966