Adelospondylus watsoni Carroll, 1967
Amphibia
Lepospondyli
Adelospondyli
Adelogyrinidae
Lower Carboniferous
? Serpukhovian
Scotland, UK
Length: ? 50 cm
Adelospondylus is only known from a small skull from the Lower carboniferous of Scotland (It was erroneously reported being from the Upper Carboniferous). It belongs to a very poorly known group of Lepospondyli amphibians called Adelospondyli consisting of four genera of very elongated aquatic animals with tiny limbs.
December 6, 2014
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