Adelospondyli

Adelospondyli is an order of elongated, presumably aquatic, Carboniferous amphibians (sensu lato). They have a robust skull roofed with solid bone, and orbits located towards the front of the skull. The limbs were almost certainly absent, although some historical sources reported them to be present. Despite the likely absence of limbs, adelospondyls retained a large part of the bony shoulder girdle. Adelospondyls have been assigned to a variety of groups in the past. They have traditionally been seen as members of the subclass Lepospondyli, related to other unusual early tetrapods such as "mic

Acherontiscus is an extinct genus of stegocephalians that lived in the Early Carboniferous (Mississippian era) of Scotland. The type and only species is Acherontiscus caledoniae, named by paleontologist Robert Carroll in 1969. Members of this genus have an unusual combination of features which makes their placement within amphibian-grade tetrapods uncertain. They possess multi-bone vertebrae similar to those of embolomeres, but also a skull similar to lepospondyls. The only known specimen of Acherontiscus possessed an elongated body similar to that of a snake or eel. No limbs were preserved, a

Adelospondylus is an extinct adelospondyl tetrapodomorph from the Carboniferous of what is now Scotland.

Palaeomolgophis is an extinct genus of eel-like adelospondyl tetrapodomorphs containing a single species—Palaeomolgophis scoticus. Their limbs are much reduced, and they were probably fully aquatic.

Adelogyrinus is an extinct genus of adelospondyl tetrapodomorph, fossils of which were found in the Dunnet Shale of Scotland.

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Dolichopareias is an extinct genus of adelospondyl tetrapodomorph.