Reconstruction of Quasicaecilia from different angles
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Order:
†Microsauria
Family:
†Brachystelechidae
Genus:
†Quasicaecilia Carroll, 1990
Species
Q. texana Carroll, 1990 (type)
Quasicaecilia is an extinct genus of microsaur. It is known from the Early Permian of Texas in the United States. A single specimen is known, collected from the Texas Permian redbeds by Charles Hazelius Sternberg in 1917. It was originally identified as a specimen of the gymnarthrid microsaur Cardiocephalus. The skull is small, less than 2 centimetres (0.79 in) in length, and the otic capsule (a hollow region of bone encapsulating the inner ear) is very large in comparison to the rest of the skull. The skull of Quasicaecilia superficially resembles those of extant but unrelated caecilians, hence the genus name.[1]Quasicaecilia was assigned to the new family Brachystelechidae in 1991 along with the genera Batropetes and Carrolla.[2]
^Carroll, R. L. (1990). "A tiny microsaur: size constraints in Palaeozoic tetrapods" (PDF). Palaeontology. 33: 1–17. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-24.
^Carroll, R. L. (1991). "Batropetes from the Lower Permian of Europe- a microsaur, not a reptile". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 11 (2): 229–242. Bibcode:1991JVPal..11..229C. doi:10.1080/02724634.1991.10011390.
Quasicaecilia is an extinct genus of microsaur. It is known from the Early Permian of Texas in the United States. A single specimen is known, collected...
the family include: Batropetes, from Germany; Carrolla, from Texas; Quasicaecilia, also from Texas; Diabloroter, from the Mazon Creek lagerstätte of Illinois;...
pusillus and Platyops parvus. Junior synonym of Diplocaulus magnicornis. Quasicaecilia Q. texana A brachystelechid microsaur. Type locality unknown, may be...
features that associate it with the North American genera Carrolla and Quasicaecilia. On the basis of these and other similarities, Carroll, who described...
Olori (2015). A study of the anatomy of the skull of the lepospondyl Quasicaecilia texana is published by Pardo, Szostakiwskyj & Anderson (2015). Redescription...
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