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Gymnophiona

Index Gymnophiona

Gymnophiona is the group of amphibians that includes the legless caecilians and all amphibians more closely related to them than to frogs or salamanders (the "stem-caecilians"). [1]

30 relations: Amniote, Amphibian, Caecilian, Caeciliidae, Carboniferous, Chikilidae, Chinle Formation, Dermophiidae, Eocaecilia, Frog, Gerobatrachus, Herpelidae, Holocene, Ichthyophiidae, Indotyphlidae, Late Triassic, Lepospondyli, Lissamphibia, Metoposauridae, Monophyly, Paleocene, Permian, Rhinatrematidae, Rubricacaecilia, Salamander, Scolecomorphidae, Siphonopidae, Temnospondyli, Tetrapod, Typhlonectidae.

Amniote

Amniotes (from Greek ἀμνίον amnion, "membrane surrounding the fetus", earlier "bowl in which the blood of sacrificed animals was caught", from ἀμνός amnos, "lamb") are a clade of tetrapod vertebrates comprising the reptiles, birds, and mammals.

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Amphibian

Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia.

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Caecilian

Caecilians (New Latin for "blind ones") are a group of limbless, serpentine amphibians.

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Caeciliidae

Caeciliidae is the family of common caecilians.

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Carboniferous

The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, Mya.

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Chikilidae

Chikilidae is a family of Indian caecilians, the 10th and most recent (2012) family of caecilians (legless amphibians) to be identified, although the type species, Chikila fulleri (formerly Herpele fulleri) was first described in 1904.

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Chinle Formation

The Chinle Formation is an Upper Triassic continental geologic formation of fluvial, lacustrine, and palustrine to eolian deposits spread across the U.S. states of Nevada, Utah, northern Arizona, western New Mexico, and western Colorado.

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Dermophiidae

The Dermophiidae are a family of common caecilians.

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Eocaecilia

Eocaecilia is an extinct genus of gymnophionan amphibian from the early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona, United States.

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Frog

A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (Ancient Greek ἀν-, without + οὐρά, tail).

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Gerobatrachus

Gerobatrachus is an extinct genus of amphibamid temnospondyl (represented by the type species Gerobatrachus hottoni) that lived in the Early Permian, approximately 290 million years ago (Ma), in the area that is now Baylor County, Texas.

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Herpelidae

Herpelidae are a family of caecilians, sometimes known as the African caecilians.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch.

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Ichthyophiidae

The Ichthyophiidae are the family of Asiatic tailed caecilians or fish caecilians found in South and Southeast Asia as well as southernmost China.

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Indotyphlidae

The Indotyphlidae are a family of common caecilians found in Africa, Seychelles and India.

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Late Triassic

The Late Triassic is the third and final of three epochs of the Triassic Period in the geologic timescale.

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Lepospondyli

Lepospondyli is a diverse taxon of reptiliomorph tetrapods.

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Lissamphibia

The Lissamphibia are a group of tetrapods that includes all modern amphibians.

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Metoposauridae

Metoposauridae is an extinct family of trematosaurian temnospondyls.

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Monophyly

In cladistics, a monophyletic group, or clade, is a group of organisms that consists of all the descendants of a common ancestor.

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Paleocene

The Paleocene or Palaeocene, the "old recent", is a geological epoch that lasted from about.

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Permian

The Permian is a geologic period and system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic period 251.902 Mya.

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Rhinatrematidae

Rhinatrematidae, the family of Neotropical tailed caecilians, American tailed caecilians or beaked caecilians, are found in the equatorial countries of South America.

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Rubricacaecilia

Rubricacaecilia is an extinct genus of caecilian (limbless amphibian) from the Early Cretaceous Period in Morocco.

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Salamander

Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by a lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults.

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Scolecomorphidae

The Scolecomorphidae are the family of tropical caecilians (Frost) or African caecilians (ITIS).

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Siphonopidae

The Siphonopidae are the family of common caecilians.

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Temnospondyli

Temnospondyli (from Greek τέμνειν (temnein, "to cut") and σπόνδυλος (spondylos, "vertebra")) is a diverse subclass of extinct small to giant tetrapods—often considered primitive amphibians—that flourished worldwide during the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic periods.

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Tetrapod

The superclass Tetrapoda (from Greek: τετρα- "four" and πούς "foot") contains the four-limbed vertebrates known as tetrapods; it includes living and extinct amphibians, reptiles (including dinosaurs, and its subgroup birds) and mammals (including primates, and all hominid subgroups including humans), as well as earlier extinct groups.

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Typhlonectidae

Typhlonectidae, also known as aquatic caecilians or rubber eels, are a family of Gymnophiona amphibians found east of the Andes in South America.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnophiona

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