Amphibamus

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Amphibamus
Fossil range: late Carboniferous (middle Pennsylvanian)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Temnospondyli
(unranked) Euskelia
Superfamily: Dissorophoidea
Family: Dissorophidae
Genus: Amphibamus
Cope, 1865

Amphibamus is a genus of dissorophorid temnospondyl amphibian from the Carboniferous (middle Pennsylvanian) of Europe and North America.

[edit] Sources

  • Gaining Ground: The Origin and Early Evolution of Tetrapods by Jennifer A. Clack
  • Vertebrate Palaeontology by Michael J. Benton
  • The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth, Second Edition by Stephen Jay Gould