| Eoscopus Temporal range: Late Carboniferous,
| |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Tetrapoda |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Clade: | †Amphibamiformes |
| Genus: | †Eoscopus Daly, 1994 |
| Type species | |
| Eoscopus lockardi Daly, 1994
| |
Eoscopus is an extinct genus of dissorophoidean euskelian temnospondyl in the family Micropholidae. It is known from Hamilton Quarry, a Late Carboniferous lagerstätte near Hamilton, Kansas.1
Members of Micropholidae were historically included in Amphibamidae, but Schoch (2019) recovered Amphibamidae as paraphyletic, necessitating resurrection of Micropholidae for Micropholis and closely related taxa.2
References
References
- "†Eoscopus Daly 1994". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- Rainer R. Schoch (2019). "The putative lissamphibian stem-group: phylogeny and evolution of the dissorophoid temnospondyls". Journal of Paleontology. 93 (1): 137–156. Bibcode:2019JPal...93..137S. doi:10.1017/jpa.2018.67. S2CID 134075457.