ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017
Stem caecilian from the Triassic of Colorado sheds light on the origins of Lissamphibia.
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Abstract
The origin of the limbless caecilians remains a lasting question in vertebrate evolution. Molecular phylogenies and morphology support that caecilians are the sister taxon of batrachians (frogs and salamanders), from which they diverged no later than the early Permian. Although recent efforts have discovered new, early members of the batrachian lineage, the record of pre-Cretaceous caecilians is limited to a single species,
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