Microbrachis
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Template:Short description Template:Confused Template:Automatic taxobox
Microbrachis is an extinct genus of microsaurian tetrapod from the Carboniferous Kladno Formation of the Czech Republic.
Description
Microbrachis was an elongated, salamander-like creature, about Template:Convert long, with over 40 vertebrae instead of the average 15–26 in its living relatives. It had minute limbs, and probably swam using fish-like lateral body movements. Microbrachis probably fed on fresh water plankton such as shrimp. Microbrachis was pedomorphic, retaining its larval gills in adulthood. Similar traits are found in the extant axolotl.[1]
References
Further reading
- Andrew R. Milner, "The Tetrapod Assemblage from Nýrany, Czechoslovakia", in Systematics Association Special Volume No.15, "The Terrestrial Environment and the Origin of Land Vertebrates", ed. by A. L. Panchen, 1980, pp. 439–496, Academic Press, London and New York
External links
Template:Microsauria Template:Taxonbar
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".