The oldest stegocephalian from the Iberian Peninsula: evidence that temnospondyls were euryhaline
| Autor: | Rodrigo Soler-Gijón, Michel Laurin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
| Předmět: |
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category Portugal Ecology biology Paleozoic Fossils Labyrinthodontia Temnospondyli Euryhaline Biostratigraphy biology.organism_classification General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Paleontology Spain Peninsula Carboniferous Vertebrates Paleoecology Animals Seawater Phylogeny Geology |
| Zdroj: | Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series III - Sciences de la Vie. 324:495-501 |
| ISSN: | 0764-4469 |
| Popis: | The previous fossil record of limbed vertebrates of the Iberian peninsula started in the Triassic (245 Ma). The discovery of a new temnospondyl from the Late Carboniferous (Stephanian C, 290 Ma) extends the fossil record of stegocephalians in this region by at least 45 Ma. Early stegocephalians are usually thought to have been unable to live in salt water, but the new temnospondyl described below appears to have lived in a coastal region, presumably in salt water. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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