Baphetidae is an extinct family of stem-tetrapods. Baphetids were large labyrinthodont predators of the Late Carboniferous period (Namurian through Westphalian)...

Megalocephalus (meaning "big head") is an extinct genus of baphetid tetrapodomorph from the late Carboniferous (Westphalian A-C) of the British Isles and...

Kyrinion is an extinct genus of baphetid tetrapodomorph from the Late Carboniferous of England. It is known from a skull that was found in Tyne and Wear...

coronoid series observed in Tanyka is common in baphetid amphibians. Likewise, the mandible of baphetids sometimes also shows a weakly developed ridge area...

characteristics in common with each. Its closest relatives may have been baphetids such as Megalocephalus, based on the possession of slight embayments on...

based on a small jaw fragment which shows similarities to Crassigyrinus, baphetids, and crown group tetrapods. This fossil was found near Tantallon Castle...

United States Megalocephalus (Latin for "big head"), an extinct genus of baphetid amphibian from the late Carboniferous This disambiguation page lists articles...

earliest four-limbed vertebrates, such as Acanthostega, Ichthyostega, and baphetids. Further back, what seems to be a pair of lozenge-shape bones lie at the...

timeframe. Redescription and a study on the affinities of Carboniferous baphetids from the Czech Republic is published by Barták, Ivanov & Ekrt (2025),...

another common amphibian. Other amphibians are rare, such as the large baphetid Megalocephalus lineolatus, the embolomere Leptophractus obsoletus, and...

1875. The name Loxommatoidea was erected by D.M.S. Watson in 1929 for baphetids such as Loxomma, which were then known as loxommatids. Loxommatids were...

{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help) Clack, J A (1 April 2003). "A new baphetid (stem tetrapod) from the Upper Carboniferous of Tyne and Wear, U.K., and...

Group Species Locality Notes Images Baphetes lineolatus Linton A rare baphetid Colosteus scutellatus Linton An abundant colosteid Eusauropleura digitata...

includes several terrestrial animals, such as anthracosaurs, aistopods, baphetids and temnospondyls, representing some of the oldest known terrestrial tetrapods...

which were the relatives and ancestors of the Amniota, and possibly the baphetids, which are thought to be related to temnospondyls and whose status as...

from these localities include temnospondyls, eogyrinid embolomeres, and baphetids. Fossils of many other semiaquatic or aquatic animals have been found...

close relative of baphetids ever since D. M. S. Watson first described it in 1929. Two main features link Spathicephalus with baphetids: antorbital fenestrae...

(Anthracosaurus, Palaeoherpeton, Pholiderpeton [formerly Eogyrinus]) and baphetids (Baphetes, Loxomma, Megalocephalus). Typical Westphalian-age marine fossils...

tetrapods as lepospondyls, seymouriamorphs, Embolomeri, temnospondyls, baphetids, colosteids and whatcheeriids were. Michael Benton (2005) noted that,...

to move on land better than other early tetrapods like colosteids and baphetids. Robert Holmes and Robert L. Carroll, the first to describe Caerorhachis...