Anthracosauria

Anthracosauria is an order of extinct reptile-like amphibians (with inside the extensive experience) that flourished all through the Carboniferous and early Permian periods, even though exactly which species are protected relies upon on one's definition of the taxon. "Anthracosauria" is occasionally used to consult all tetrapods greater carefully associated with amniotes which includes reptiles, mammals, and birds, than to lissamphibians which includes frogs and salamanders. An equal time period to this definition might be Reptiliomorpha. Anthracosauria has additionally been used to consult a smaller institution of massive, crocodilian-like aquatic tetrapods additionally called embolomeres.

History  

As in the beginning described through Säve-Söderbergh in 1934, the anthracosaurs are a collection of normally massive aquatic Amphibia from the Carboniferous and decrease Permian. As described through Alfred Sherwood Romer but, the anthracosaurs encompass all non-amniote "labyrinthodont" reptile-like amphibians, and Säve-Söderbergh's definition is greater equal to Romer's suborder Embolomeri. This definition changed into additionally utilized by Edwin H. Colbert and Robert L. Carroll of their textbooks of Vertebrate Palaeontology (Colbert 1969, Carroll 1988). Dr A. L. Panchen but desired Säve-Söderbergh's authentic definition of Antracosauria in his Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie, 1970. With cladistics matters have modified again. Gauthier, Kluge and Rowe (1988) described Anthracosauria as a clade which includes "Amniota plus all different tetrapods which might be greater carefully associated with amniotes than they're to amphibians" (Amphibia in flip changed into described through those authors as a clade which includes Lissamphibia and people tetrapods which might be greater carefully associated with lissamphibians than they're to amniotes). Similarly, Michel Laurin (1996) makes use of the time period in a cladistic experience to consult simplest the maximum superior reptile-like amphibians. Thus his definition consists of Diadectomorpha, Solenodonsauridae and the amniotes. As Ruta, Coates and Quicke (2003) pointed out, this definition is problematic, because, relying on the precise phylogenetic role of Lissamphibia inside Tetrapoda, the use of it would result in the state of affairs wherein a few taxa historically categorized as anthracosaurs, which includes even the genus Anthracosaurus itself, would not belong to Anthracosauria. Laurin (2001) created a one of a kind phylogenetic definition of Anthracosauria, defining it as "the most important clade that consists of Anthracosaurus russelli however now no longer Ascaphus truei". However, Michael Benton (2000, 2004) makes the anthracosaurs a paraphyletic order withinside the superorder Reptiliomorpha, in conjunction with the orders Seymouriamorpha and Diadectomorpha, consequently making the Anthracosaurians the "decrease" reptile-like amphibians. In his definition, the institution embody the Embolomeri, Chroniosuchia and probable the own circle of relatives Gephyrostegidae.

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