Diplovertebron

Diplovertebron; Temporal range: Late Carboniferous,
	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
Synonyms
	Diplospondylus Lydekker, 1889; Nummulosaurus kolbii? Frič, 1901;

Diplovertebron (from Greek: διπλοῦς diplóos, 'double' and Latin: vertebron, 'vertebra')^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[3]^[4]

^ Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris); Germann, John C. (1945). The dinosaur book : the ruling reptiles and their relatives. New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History. p. 148.
^ Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Carroll, R.L. (19 February 1970). "The Ancestry of Reptiles". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 257 (814): 267–308. Bibcode:1970RSPTB.257..267C. doi:10.1098/rstb.1970.0026. JSTOR 2416952.
^ Klembara, Jozef; Clack, Jennifer A.; Milner, Andrew R.; Ruta, Marcello (8 July 2014). "Cranial anatomy, ontogeny, and relationships of the Late Carboniferous tetrapod Gephyrostegus bohemicus Jaekel, 1902". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (4): 774–792. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.837055. S2CID 86118415.

[1] Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris); Germann, John C. (1945). The dinosaur book : the ruling reptiles and their relatives. New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History. p. 148.

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[:0-3] Carroll, R.L. (19 February 1970). "The Ancestry of Reptiles". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 257 (814): 267–308. Bibcode:1970RSPTB.257..267C. doi:10.1098/rstb.1970.0026. JSTOR 2416952.

[:1-4] Klembara, Jozef; Clack, Jennifer A.; Milner, Andrew R.; Ruta, Marcello (8 July 2014). "Cranial anatomy, ontogeny, and relationships of the Late Carboniferous tetrapod Gephyrostegus bohemicus Jaekel, 1902". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (4): 774–792. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.837055. S2CID 86118415.

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