Microbrachis
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| Fossil of Microbrachis pelikani | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Batrachomorpha |
| Subclass: | †Lepospondyli |
| Order: | †"Microsauria" |
| Family: | †Microbrachidae Fritsch, 1883 |
| Genus: | †Microbrachis Fric, 1875 |
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Microbrachis ('small arm') is an extinct genus of lepospondyl amphibian from the Carboniferous period of what is now the Czech Republic.
Microbrachis was an elongated, salamander-like creature, about Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). 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
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<references />, or <references group="..." />- 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
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