Embolomeri

Embolomeres
Temporal range: Early Carboniferous - Early Triassic
Restoration of Archeria from the Lower Permian of Texas.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Reptiliomorpha
Order: Embolomeri
Cope, 1885
Subgroups

See text.

Archeria crassidiscus.

Embolomeri is a suborder of Reptiliomorpha. Embolomeres first evolved from reptile-like amphibians in the Early Carboniferous (Mississippian). They were strongly specialised brackish or marine creatures, fish-eating and with long bodies for undulating swimming.

Unlike many of the other reptiliomorphs, the Embolomeri survived the Permian-Triassic extinction event that wiped out around 90% of all life on Earth, possibly due to their specialised lifestyle. They later became extinct by the end of Early Triassic epoch. Each of its vertebral centra is made of 2 cylinders, the pleurocentrum and the intercentrum.

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram from Ruta et al. (2003):[1]

Tetrapoda


Eucritta melanolimnetes



Temnospondyli





Caerorhachis bairdi



Embolomeri

Eoherpeton watsoni




Proterogyrinus scheelei




Archeria crassidisca



Pholiderpeton scutigerum




Anthracosaurus russelli



Pholiderpeton attheyi








Gephyrostegidae




Solenodonsaurus janenschi




Seymouriamorpha




Lepospondyli




Diadectomorpha



Amniota










References

  1. Marcello Ruta, Michael I. Coates and Donald L. J. Quicke (2003). "Early tetrapod relationships revisited" (PDF). Biological Reviews 78 (2): 251–345. doi:10.1017/S1464793102006103. PMID 12803423.

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