Name:
Adelospondylus
(Obscure vertebra).
Phonetic: Ah-del-o-spon-dy-lus.
Named By: R. L. Carroll - 1967.
Classification: Chordata, Amphibia,
Lepospondyli, Adelospondyli, Adelogyrinidae.
Species: A. watsoni (type).
Diet: Insectivore?
Size: Uncertain, but skull is 5 centimetres
long.
Known locations: Scotland.
Time period: Serpukhovian of the Carboniferous.
Fossil representation: Single skull and mandibles
(lower jaws).
Another small amphibian from the Carboniferous period of Scotland, Adelospondylus is only known by a skull and jaws. The lower jaw is noted as being quite deep, but is otherwise not greatly special. Adelospondylus may have been similar to Adelogyrinus.
Further reading
- An Adelogyrinid Lepospondyl Amphibian from the Upper
Carboniferous, R. L. Carroll - 1967.
- The Order Adelospondyli: Carboniferous lepospondyl amphibians. -
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of
Edinburgh. 82 (3): 239–275. - S. M. Andrews & R. L. Carroll -
1991.