Holospondyli
| Holospondyli Temporal range: Early Carboniferous - Late Permian
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| Life restoration of Diploceraspis burkei | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subclass: | †Lepospondyli |
| Node: | †Holospondyli Thomson & Bossy, 1970 |
Holospondyli is a proposed clade of lepospondyls from the Early Carboniferous to the Late Permian[1] that includes the aistopods, the paraphyletic nectrideans, and possibly also Adelospondyli.[2] However, aistopods have since been recovered as stem-tetrapods more primitive than temnospondyls or other groups of lepospondyls.[3]
References
- ^ Germain, D. (2010). "The Moroccan diplocaulid: The last lepospondyl, the single one on Gondwana". Historical Biology. 22: 4–39. doi:10.1080/08912961003779678.
- ^ Marcello Ruta, Michael I. Coates and Donald L. J. Quicke (2003). "Early tetrapod relationships revisited" (PDF). Biological Reviews. 78 (2): 251–345. doi:10.1017/S1464793102006103. PMID 12803423.
- ^ ^ Jason D. Pardo, Matt Szostakiwskyj, Per E. Ahlberg & Jason S. Anderson (2017) Hidden morphological diversity among early tetrapods. Nature (advance online publication) doi:10.1038/nature22966
