| Amphibamus Temporal range: late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
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| Amphibamus grandiceps | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Family: | †Amphibamidae |
| Genus: | †Amphibamus Cope, 1865 |
| Species: | †A. grandiceps |
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| †Amphibamus grandiceps Cope, 1865 | |
Amphibamus is a genus of amphibamid temnospondyl amphibians from the Carboniferous (middle Pennsylvanian) of North America. This animal is considered to have been close to the ancestry of modern amphibians. Its length was about 20 centimetres (7.9 in).
The generic name Amphibamus alludes to the two modes of locomotion of the animal, swimming with its oar-shaped tail, and crawling because of its long fingers with claws, from Greek ἀμφί (amphí) "both" and -βάμων (-bámōn) "that goes" or βᾶμα (bâma) "leg".
Gallery
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Amphibamus grandiceps skeleton
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Amphibamus grandiceps fossil
References
- Gaining Ground: The Origin and Early Evolution of Tetrapods by Jennifer A. Clack
- Vertebrate Palaeontology by Michael J. Benton
- The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth, Second Edition by Stephen Jay Gould
- Temnospondyli
- Cope, Edward (1865). "On Amphibamus Grandiceps, a New Batrachian from the Coal Measures". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 17 (3): 134–137. Retrieved October 29, 2023.
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