List of tetrapod families information

The page lists all of the families in the clade Tetrapoda, organized by taxonomic ranks. This list does not include families that are extinct. Suborder...

A tetrapod (/ˈtɛtrəˌpɒd/; from Ancient Greek τετρα- (tetra-) 'four', and πούς (poús) 'foot') is any four-limbed vertebrate animal of the superclass Tetrapoda...

Carboniferous tetrapods include amphibians and reptiles that lived during the Carboniferous Period. Though stem-tetrapods originated in the preceding...

evolution of tetrapods began about 400 million years ago in the Devonian Period with the earliest tetrapods evolved from lobe-finned fishes. Tetrapods (under...

herbivorous forms, and primitive diapsids. The following list of families of Permian tetrapods is based mostly on Benton ed. 1993. The classification follows...

ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia. All living amphibians belong to the group Lissamphibia. They inhabit a wide variety of habitats,...

Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct...

marine fish and the marine tetrapods (primarily seabirds, marine reptiles, and marine mammals). Vertebrates are a subphylum of chordates that have a vertebral...

Ichthyostega is often labelled a 'tetrapod' because of its limbs and fingers, it evolved long before true crown group tetrapods and could more accurately be...

maximum size of this nearly human-sized river-dweller is 64 kg (141 lb) and almost 1.83 m (6.0 ft). Before amniotes became the dominant tetrapods, several...

Amniotes are tetrapod vertebrate animals belonging to the clade Amniota, a large group that comprises the vast majority of living terrestrial and semiaquatic...

group of lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii) in the class Actinistia. As sarcopterygians, they are more closely related to lungfish and tetrapods (which...

majority of extant fish) and the lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii, which gave rise to all land vertebrates, i.e. tetrapods). The oldest known fossils of bony...

Tuditanidae is an extinct family of microsaurian tetrapods. Fossils have been found from Nova Scotia, Ohio, and the Czech Republic and are Late Carboniferous...

matures.[citation needed] They are made of keratin, the same material from which human fingernails and tetrapod claws are made, and are structurally and...

Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development. Living reptiles comprise...

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The following is the list of mammals which have been taxonomically described in the 21st century. List of mammals described in the 2000s...

vast majority of India's terrestrial vertebrate life was wiped out in the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event; only 3 extant tetrapod lineages can trace...

Ostodolepidae, also spelled Ostodolepididae, is an extinct family of Early Permian tetrapods. Initially they were considered microsaurs, but later were...

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largest of the few known lungless tetrapods, and the only known lungless caecilian. A. eiselti is the largest tetrapod to lack lungs, double the size of the...

and the third land-based again. List of fossil sites (with link directory) Olson's Extinction List of Permian tetrapods "Chart/Time Scale". www.stratigraphy...

paraphyletic group that describes aquatic vertebrates while excluding tetrapods, and the bony fish that often represent the group are more closely related...

Devonian tetrapod trackways at three sites on Valentia Island within the Valentia Slate Formation. The earliest fossil trackway of primitive tetrapods in Australia...

reptiles are not a natural group. After the first fully terrestrial tetrapods evolved, one of their lineages split into the synapsids (the line leading to mammals)...

2004. Review of the tetrapod fauna of the "Lower Stormberg Group" of the main Karoo Basin (southern Africa): Implication for the age of the Lower Elliot...

prehistoric fish List of years in paleontology Old Red Sandstone Parodies of the ichthys symbol Prehistoric life Walking fish - fish with tetrapod-like features...

traditional classification tetrapods and fish are seen as two different groups, phylogenetically tetrapods are considered a branch of fish. Thus, with cladistics...

tetrapods and fish. The following table lists the number of described extant species for each vertebrate class as estimated in the IUCN Red List of Threatened...