Amphibamus

Amphibamus Temporal range: late Carboniferous (middle Pennsylvanian)

Amphibamus grandiceps
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Temnospondyli
(unranked):	Euskelia
Superfamily:	Dissorophoidea
Family:	Amphibamidae
Genus:	Amphibamus Cope, 1865
Species
†A. grandiceps Cope, 1865 (type)^[1]

Amphibamus is a genus of amphibamid temnospondyl amphibians from the Carboniferous (middle Pennsylvanian) of Europe and North America.^[2]^[3]^[4] This animal is considered to have been close to the ancestry of modern amphibians. Its length was about 20 cm.^[5]

Gallery

↑ Cope, E. D., 1865, On Amphibamus grandiceps, a new Batrachian from the Coal Measures: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1865, p. 134-137.
↑ Gaining Ground: The Origin and Early Evolution of Tetrapods by Jennifer A. Clack
↑ Vertebrate Palaeontology by Michael J. Benton
↑ The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth, Second Edition by Stephen Jay Gould
↑ Temnospondyli

Major clades

Dissorophoidea Eryopoidea

Branchiosaurinae	Apateon Branchiosaurus Milnererpeton Schoenfelderpeton

Tungussogyrinae	Tungussogyrinus

Alegeinosaurus Anakamacops Arkanserpeton Aspidosaurus Astreptorhachis ?Ecolsonia Fayella Iratusaurus Mordex Platyhystrix

Eucacopinae	Brevidorsum Cacops Conjunctio Kamacops Reiszerpeton Scapanops Zygosaurus

Dissorophinae	Broiliellus Dissorophus

Others

Eryopidae	Clamorosaurus Eryops Onchiodon Osteophorus Syndyodosuchus

Parioxyidae	Parioxys

Zatrachydidae	Acanthostomatops Dasyceps Zatrachys

Related categories

Temnospondyls Carboniferous amphibians Permian amphibians Triassic amphibians

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