Name
Adelogyrinus (obscure tadpole).
Phonetic
Ah-del-o-jy-rin-us.
Named By
Watson 1929.
Classification
Chordata, Amphibia, Lepospondyli, Adelogyrinidae.
Diet
Insectivore?
Species
A. simorhynchus
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.
- The Carboniferous Amphibia of Scotland, D. M. S. Watson - 1929.
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