en.unionpedia.org

Microsauria, the Glossary

Microsauria ("small lizards") is an extinct, possibly polyphyletic order of tetrapods from the late Carboniferous and early Permian periods.^[1]

80 relations: Adelospondyli, Aistopoda, Amniote, Arizona, Asaphestera, Axolotl, Batrachiderpeton, Batropetes, Brachystelechidae, Carboniferous, Cardiocephalus, Carrolla, Cisuralian, Cladogram, Ctenerpeton, Czech Republic, Diceratosaurus, Diplocaulidae, Diplocaulus, Diploceraspis, Eocaecilia, Europe, Euryodus, Evolutionary grade, Gansu, Germany, Gymnarthridae, Hapsidopareiidae, Hapsidopareion, Huskerpeton, Hyloplesion, Illinois, Keraterpeton, Kirktonecta, Lepospondyli, Lissamphibia, Llistrofus, Lopingian, Lysorophia, Micraroter, Microbrachis, Nectridea, North America, Nova Scotia, Odonterpeton, Ohio, Oklahoma, Order (biology), Ostodolepidae, Paleobiology Database, ... Expand index (30 more) »
Cisuralian extinctions
Prehistoric tetrapod orders

Adelospondyli

Adelospondyli is an order of elongated, presumably aquatic, Carboniferous amphibians (sensu lato).

See Microsauria and Adelospondyli

Aistopoda (Greek for " not-visible feet") is an order of highly specialised snake-like stegocephalians known from the Carboniferous and Early Permian of Europe and North America, ranging from tiny forms only, to nearly in length.

See Microsauria and Aistopoda

Amniote

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

See Microsauria and Amniote

Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

See Microsauria and Arizona

Asaphestera

Asaphestera is an extinct genus of a synapsid described on the basis of fossils from the Carboniferous of the Joggins locality in Nova Scotia, Canada.

See Microsauria and Asaphestera

Axolotl

The axolotl (from āxōlōtl) (Ambystoma mexicanum) is a paedomorphic salamander closely related to the tiger salamander.

See Microsauria and Axolotl

Batrachiderpeton

Batrachiderpeton is an extinct genus of nectridean tetrapodomorphs within the family Diplocaulidae; it was a basal member of the family.

See Microsauria and Batrachiderpeton

Batropetes

Batropetes is an extinct genus of brachystelechid recumbirostran "microsaur".

See Microsauria and Batropetes

Brachystelechidae

Brachystelechidae is an extinct family of Early Permian microsaurs. Microsauria and Brachystelechidae are Cisuralian extinctions.

See Microsauria and Brachystelechidae

Carboniferous

The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, Ma.

See Microsauria and Carboniferous

Cardiocephalus

Cardiocephalus is an extinct genus of microsaurian tetrapods from the Permian period.

See Microsauria and Cardiocephalus

Carrolla

Carrolla is an extinct genus of brachystelechid 'microsaur' that lived in the Lower Permian in North America.

See Microsauria and Carrolla

Cisuralian

The Cisuralian is the first series/epoch of the Permian.

See Microsauria and Cisuralian

Cladogram

A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.

See Microsauria and Cladogram

Ctenerpeton

Ctenerpeton is an extinct genus of nectridean tetrapodomorphs within the family Urocordylidae.

See Microsauria and Ctenerpeton

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

See Microsauria and Czech Republic

Diceratosaurus

Diceratosaurus is an extinct genus of nectridean tetrapodomorphs within the family Diplocaulidae.

See Microsauria and Diceratosaurus

Diplocaulidae

The Diplocaulidae ("double cauls") is an extinct family of "nectridean" tetrapodomorphs that arose during the Late Carboniferous and died out in the Late Permian. Microsauria and Diplocaulidae are Pennsylvanian first appearances.

See Microsauria and Diplocaulidae

Diplocaulus

Diplocaulus (meaning "double stalk") is an extinct genus of lepospondyl amphibians which lived from the Late Carboniferous to the Late Permian of North America and Africa.

See Microsauria and Diplocaulus

Diploceraspis

Diploceraspis is a genus of diplocaulid nectrideans.

See Microsauria and Diploceraspis

Eocaecilia

Eocaecilia is an extinct genus of gymnophionan amphibian from the early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona, United States.

See Microsauria and Eocaecilia

Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

See Microsauria and Europe

Euryodus

Euryodus is an extinct genus of microsaur within the family Gymnarthridae.

See Microsauria and Euryodus

Evolutionary grade

A grade is a taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity.

See Microsauria and Evolutionary grade

Gansu

Gansu is an inland province in Northwestern China.

See Microsauria and Gansu

Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

See Microsauria and Germany

Gymnarthridae

Gymnarthridae is an extinct family of the group Recumbirostra.

See Microsauria and Gymnarthridae

Hapsidopareiidae

Hapsidopareiidae is an extinct family of microsaurs. Microsauria and Hapsidopareiidae are Cisuralian extinctions.

See Microsauria and Hapsidopareiidae

Hapsidopareion

Hapsidopareion is an extinct genus of microsaur belonging to the family Hapsidopareiidae.

See Microsauria and Hapsidopareion

Huskerpeton

Huskerpeton (“Husker” after the University of Nebraska “corn huskers” and “-erpeton” meaning creeping in Greek) is an extinct genus of recumbirostran from the Early Permian period.

See Microsauria and Huskerpeton

Hyloplesion

Hyloplesion is an extinct genus of microbrachomorph microsaur.

See Microsauria and Hyloplesion

Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

See Microsauria and Illinois

Keraterpeton

Keraterpeton is an extinct genus of "nectridean" tetrapodomorphs, previously included within the monotypic Keraterpedontidae family, from the Carboniferous period of Europe (Czech Republic, England and Ireland)Brownrigg, W. B. (1865).

See Microsauria and Keraterpeton

Kirktonecta

Kirktonecta is an extinct genus of microsaur known from the Carboniferous of West Lothian, Scotland.

See Microsauria and Kirktonecta

Lepospondyli

Lepospondyli is a diverse taxon of early tetrapods.

See Microsauria and Lepospondyli

Lissamphibia

The Lissamphibia (from Greek λισσός (lissós, "smooth") + ἀμφίβια (amphíbia), meaning "smooth amphibians") is a group of tetrapods that includes all modern amphibians.

See Microsauria and Lissamphibia

Llistrofus

Llistrofus is an extinct genus of early Permian microsaur within the family Hapsidopareiidae that is known from Oklahoma.

See Microsauria and Llistrofus

Lopingian

The Lopingian is the uppermost series/last epoch of the Permian.

See Microsauria and Lopingian

Lysorophia

Lysorophia is an order of fossorial Carboniferous and Permian tetrapods within the Recumbirostra. Microsauria and Lysorophia are Cisuralian extinctions and Pennsylvanian first appearances.

See Microsauria and Lysorophia

Micraroter

Micraroter is an extinct genus of microsaur within the family Ostodolepidae.

See Microsauria and Micraroter

Microbrachis

Microbrachis is an extinct genus of microsaurian tetrapod from the Carboniferous Kladno Formation of the Czech Republic.

See Microsauria and Microbrachis

Nectridea

Nectridea is the name of an extinct order of lepospondyl tetrapods from the Carboniferous and Permian periods, including animals such as Diplocaulus. Microsauria and Nectridea are Pennsylvanian first appearances.

See Microsauria and Nectridea

North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

See Microsauria and North America

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is a province of Canada, located on its east coast.

See Microsauria and Nova Scotia

Odonterpeton

Odonterpeton is an extinct genus of "microsaur" from the Late Carboniferous of Ohio, containing the lone species Odonterpeton triangulare.

See Microsauria and Odonterpeton

Ohio

Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

See Microsauria and Ohio

Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Choctaw: Oklahumma) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

See Microsauria and Oklahoma

Order (biology)

Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

See Microsauria and Order (biology)

Ostodolepidae

Ostodolepidae, also spelled Ostodolepididae, is an extinct family of Early Permian tetrapods. Microsauria and Ostodolepidae are Cisuralian extinctions.

See Microsauria and Ostodolepidae

Paleobiology Database

The Paleobiology Database is an online resource for information on the distribution and classification of fossil animals, plants, and microorganisms.

See Microsauria and Paleobiology Database

Pantylidae

Pantylidae is an extinct family of tetrapods of the group Recumbirostra.

See Microsauria and Pantylidae

Pantylus

Pantylus (from παν, 'all' and τύλος, 'knob') is an extinct microsaurian tetrapod from the Permian period of North America.

See Microsauria and Pantylus

Paraphyly

Paraphyly is a taxonomic term describing a grouping that consists of the grouping's last common ancestor and some but not all of its descendant lineages.

See Microsauria and Paraphyly

Pelodosotis

Pelodosotis is an extinct microsaurian tetrapod.

See Microsauria and Pelodosotis

Pennsylvanian (geology)

The Pennsylvanian (also known as Upper Carboniferous or Late Carboniferous) is, on the ICS geologic timescale, the younger of two subperiods of the Carboniferous Period (or the upper of two subsystems of the Carboniferous System).

See Microsauria and Pennsylvanian (geology)

Permian

The Permian is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.902 Mya.

See Microsauria and Permian

Polyphyly

A polyphyletic group is an assemblage that includes organisms with mixed evolutionary origin but does not include their most recent common ancestor.

See Microsauria and Polyphyly

Ptyonius

Ptyonius is an extinct genus of nectridean tetrapodomorphs within the family Urocordylidae.

See Microsauria and Ptyonius

Quasicaecilia

Quasicaecilia is an extinct genus of microsaur.

See Microsauria and Quasicaecilia

Recumbirostra

Recumbirostra is a clade of tetrapods which lived during the Carboniferous and Permian periods. Microsauria and Recumbirostra are Cisuralian extinctions and Pennsylvanian first appearances.

See Microsauria and Recumbirostra

Rhynchonkos

Rhynchonkos is an extinct genus of rhynchonkid microsaur.

See Microsauria and Rhynchonkos

Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

See Microsauria and Russia

Sauropleura

Sauropleura (meaning "lizard side") is an extinct genus of nectridean tetrapodomorphs within the family Urocordylidae.

See Microsauria and Sauropleura

Saxonerpeton

Saxonerpeton is an extinct genus of microsaur of the family Hapsidopareiidae.

See Microsauria and Saxonerpeton

Scincosaurus

Scincosaurus is an extinct genus of nectridean tetrapodomorphs within the family Scincosauridae.

See Microsauria and Scincosaurus

Sparodus

Sparodus is an extinct genus of microsaur within the family Gymnarthridae.

See Microsauria and Sparodus

Stegotretus

Stegotretus is an extinct genus of microsaur referred to the Pantylidae.

See Microsauria and Stegotretus

Tetrapod

A tetrapod is any four-limbed vertebrate animal of the superclass Tetrapoda.

See Microsauria and Tetrapod

Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

See Microsauria and Texas

Triassic

The Triassic (sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya.

See Microsauria and Triassic

Trihecaton

Trihecaton is an extinct genus of microsaur from the Late Pennsylvanian of Colorado.

See Microsauria and Trihecaton

Tuditanidae

Tuditanidae is an extinct family of microsaurian tetrapods.

See Microsauria and Tuditanidae

Tuditanus

Tuditanus is an extinct genus of tuditanid microsaur from the Carboniferous, ~ 306 Ma ago.

See Microsauria and Tuditanus

United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

See Microsauria and United States