Adelogyrinus
Name:
Adelogyrinus
(obscure tadpole).
Phonetic: Ah-del-o-jy-rin-us.
Named By: Watson 1929.
Classification: Chordata, Amphibia,
Lepospondyli, Adelogyrinidae.
Species: A. simorhynchus
(type).
Diet: Insectivore?
Size: Skull 4.5 centimetres long. Body length
roughly estimated to be about 50 centimetres long.
Known locations: Scotland.
Time period: Visean of the Carboniferous.
Fossil representation: Skull and partial post
cranial remains including vertebrae, elements of a forelimb and
scales.
A very obscure genus, Adelogyrinus was a small amphibean that hunted in and around the waterways and forests of what would become Scotland back in the Carboniferous period. Adelogyrinus may have been similar to Adelospondylus.
Further reading
- The Carboniferous Amphibia of Scotland, D. M. S. Watson
- 1929.
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