Apodops

Apodops
Temporal range: Early Eocene
(Itaboraian)
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Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Gymnophiona
Clade: Apoda
Family: Caeciliidae
Genus: Apodops
Estes & Wake 1972
Type species
Apodops pricei
Estes & Wake 1972

Apodops is an extinct genus of early caecilians from the Early Eocene Itaboraí Formation of Brazil. The type species of the genus is A. pricei, described based on an isolated and broken trunk vertebra.

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