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- noun biology Any of many primitive
amphibians , of the order Temnospondyli, from theCarboniferous andPermian periods.
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After the writing yesterday, and after the grand safari down to the stoop, I spent maybe an hour writing another new article for Wikipedia, this one on the temnospondyl amphibian Kryostega collisoni (from the Early or Middle Triassic of the Transantarctic Mountains).
"I don't sleep. I dream." greygirlbeast 2008
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Some of the references in the attached list aren't strictly dinosaurs concerning, say, temnospondyl amphibians, crocodylomorphs, mammals, anatomy, physiology, sedimentology, etc.; mostly I try and collect things that are relevant to Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems, focusing on dinosaurs and their associated biotas and environments. ...
The Year in Dinosaurs, 2008 ReBecca Foster 2009
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Some of the references in the attached list aren't strictly dinosaurs concerning, say, temnospondyl amphibians, crocodylomorphs, mammals, anatomy, physiology, sedimentology, etc.; mostly I try and collect things that are relevant to Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems, focusing on dinosaurs and their associated biotas and environments. ...
Archive 2009-01-01 ReBecca Foster 2009
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He has studied a number of other Antarctic fossils, including dinosaurs, collected at about the same time, and so the temnospondyl fossil was not closely examined until the last couple of years.
Kryostega collinsoni ReBecca Foster 2008
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The species, named Kryostega collinsoni, is a temnospondyl, a prehistoric amphibian distantly related to modern salamanders and frogs.
Archive 2008-09-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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The species, named Kryostega collinsoni, is a temnospondyl, a prehistoric amphibian distantly related to modern salamanders and frogs.
Kryostega collinsoni ReBecca Foster 2008
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The scientists worked from a fossilized piece of the snout of K. collinsoni, analyzing structures present in more complete skulls for other temnospondyl species that had similar size characteristics.
Archive 2008-09-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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He has studied a number of other Antarctic fossils, including dinosaurs, collected at about the same time, and so the temnospondyl fossil was not closely examined until the last couple of years.
Archive 2008-09-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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The scientists worked from a fossilized piece of the snout of K. collinsoni, analyzing structures present in more complete skulls for other temnospondyl species that had similar size characteristics.
Kryostega collinsoni ReBecca Foster 2008
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They want a fossil that has a sign I am a dissorophoid temnospondyl from the Permian.
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