Diplovertebron
| Diplovertebron Temporal range: Late Carboniferous, | |
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| Frič's illustration of the smaller slab containing Diplovertebron fossils. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Clade: | Tetrapodomorpha |
| Order: | †Embolomeri |
| Family: | †Eogyrinidae |
| Genus: | †Diplovertebron Frič, 1879 |
| Type species | |
| Diplovertebron punctatum Frič, 1879 | |
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Diplovertebron (from Greek: διπλοῦς diplóos, 'double' and Latin: vertebron, 'vertebra') is an extinct genus of embolomere that lived in the Late Carboniferous period (Moscovian), about 310 million years ago. Diplovertebron was a medium-sized animal, around 50 cm in length. Members of the genus inhabited European Carboniferous swamps in what is now the Czech Republic. They were closely related to larger swamp-dwelling tetrapods like Proterogyrinus and Anthracosaurus. However, Diplovertebron were much smaller than these large, crocodile-like creatures. Known from a single species, Diplovertebron punctatum, this genus has had a complicated history closely tied to Gephyrostegus, another genus of small, reptile-like amphibians.
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