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Apodops

Apodops is an extinct genus of early caecilians from the Early Eocene Itaboraí Formation of Brazil. The type species of the genus is A. pricei, described based on an isolated and broken trunk vertebra.

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Apodops
Temporal range: Early Eocene
(Itaboraian)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Gymnophiona
Clade: Apoda
Family: Caeciliidae
Genus: †Apodops
Estes & Wake 1972
Type species
Apodops pricei
Estes & Wake 1972

Apodops is an extinct genus of early caecilians from the Early Eocene Itaboraí Formation of Brazil.1 The type species of the genus is A. pricei, described based on an isolated and broken trunk vertebra.23

References

References

  1. ESTES, RICHARD; WAKE, MARVALEE H. (September 1972). "The First Fossil Record of Caecilian Amphibians". Nature. 239 (5369): 228–231. Bibcode:1972Natur.239..228E. doi:10.1038/239228b0. ISSN 0028-0836.
  2. Apodops at Fossilworks.org
  3. Santos, Rodolfo Otávio; Laurin, Michel; Zaher, Hussam (2020-11-03). "A review of the fossil record of caecilians (Lissamphibia: Gymnophionomorpha) with comments on its use to calibrate molecular timetrees". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 131 (4): 737–755. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blaa148. ISSN 0024-4066.
Further reading

Further reading

  • Barcelos, L.A., Santos, R.O. The Lissamphibian Fossil Record of South America. Palaeobio Palaeoenv (2022).
  • R. Estes and M. H. Wake. 1972. The first fossil record of caecilian amphibians. Nature 239:228-231
  • Biology of Amphibians by William E. Duellman and Linda Trueb
  • The Big Book Of Dinosaurs by David Norman
  • Amphibians: The World of Frogs, Toads, Salamanders and Newts by Robert Hofrichter
  • Colbert's Evolution of the Vertebrates: A History of the Backboned Animals Through Time by Edwin H. Colbert, Michael Morales, and Eli C. Minkoff