A recent-ish study by Eltink et al. (2019) that focused on stereospondylomorphs (https://t.co/jZzD1ZgPN9) has also suggested that lapillopsids might nest within the better-known clade of Lydekkerinidae (📷: figure 2 from that paper). https://t.co/uhxFPcP6JR
What are stereospondylomorphs btw? Stereospondylomorpha includes stereospondyls proper, but also some taxa that are not quite stereospondyls. It's like the "all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares" bit. 📷: Eltink et al. (2019; https
Similar results in Eltink et al. (2016), at the base and next to Lapillopsis (https://t.co/Qph3bADFqR; L), and Eltink et al. (2019), but a little farther from Lapillopsis (https://t.co/2KDAGqdTnC; R) https://t.co/RtZRgFDmLg
Conversely, Eltink et al.'s (2019) analysis (https://t.co/SbNvAb8Wbt) got Lapillopsis as the sister taxon to the lydekkerinid Lydekkerina; some workers have suggested closeness between lapillopsids and lydekkerinids before (Dias-da-Silva & Hewison, 201
RT @TomHoltzPaleo: Interrelationships, palaeobiogeography and early evolution of Stereospondylomorpha (Tetrapoda: Temnospondyli) https://t.…
Interrelationships, palaeobiogeography and early evolution of Stereospondylomorpha (Tetrapoda: Temnospondyli) https://t.co/DnZ9MOF1KW
Interrelationships, palaeobiogeography and early evolution of Stereospondylomorpha (Tetrapoda: Temnospondyli) https://t.co/vWzSxdIHmK
Eltink et al. (2019): Interrelationships, palaeobiogeography and early evolution of Stereospondylomorpha (Tetrapoda: Temnospondyli) https://t.co/GEGysoZlEF https://t.co/dqZoRLSfLS