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Aistopoda ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	37251	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=37251

Rank

suborder (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Aistopoda

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Amphibia	Linnaeus 1758
-	Lepospondyli
suborder	Aistopoda	Miall 1875

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Aistopoda	suborder	belongs to Labyrinthodontia	stated with evidence	Lydekker, 1889
Aistopoda	suborder	belongs to Lepospondyli	stated with evidence	Gadow, 1898
Aistopoda	suborder	belongs to Stegocephala	stated with evidence	Moodie, 1909
Aistopoda	order	belongs to Microsauria	stated without evidence	Jaekel, 1911
Aistopoda	suborder	belongs to Lepospondyli	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1946
Aistopoda	suborder	belongs to Microsauria	stated with evidence	Gregory, 1948
Aistopoda	suborder	belongs to Pseudocentrophori	stated without evidence	Huene, 1954
Aistopoda	order	belongs to Lepospondyli	stated with evidence	Gardiner, 1982
Aistopoda	order	belongs to Lepospondyli	implied	Thayer, 1985
Aistopoda	order	belongs to Lepospondyli	stated without evidence	Carroll et al., 1998
Aistopoda	order	belongs to Lepospondyli	stated with evidence	Anderson, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

343 - 336 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

290 - 268 Ma
Permian

Environment

brackish,freshwater,terrestrial (based on Tetrapoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Reproduction

dispersal=water (based on Amphibia)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

L. C. Miall. 1875. On the Structure and Classification of the Labyrinthodonts. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 44:149-192

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Lethiscidae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)	1	343 Ma Carboniferous	343 Ma Carboniferous
Oestocephalidae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)	8	323 Ma Carboniferous	305 Ma Carboniferous
Ophiderpetontidae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)	7	336 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Phlegethontiidae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)	16	318 Ma Carboniferous	290 Ma Permian
Pseudophlegethontiidae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)	1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1875	Aistopoda Miall pp. 151, 171
1889	Aistopoda Lydekker p. 1024
1898	Aistopodes Gadow p. 12
1909	Aistopoda Moodie p. 39
1911	Aistopodi Jaekel p. 119
1946	Aistopoda Kuhn p. 53
1948	Aistopoda Gregory pp. 636, 662
1954	Aistopoda Huene p. 7

Year	Name and Author
1982	Aistopoda Gardiner p. 228
1982	Aistopoda Wellstead p. 195
1985	Aistopoda Thayer p. 687
1988	Aistopoda Carroll
1998	Aistopoda Carroll et al. p. xii
2002	Aistopoda Anderson p. 1031
2003	Aistopoda Anderson p. 80
2012	Aistopoda Maddin et al.

References

Miall L. C. On the Structure and Classification of the Labyrinthodonts, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 44, 149-192

Lydekker R. Part III - Palaeozoology. Vertebrata, Manual of palaeontology for the use of students with a general introduction on the principles of palaeontology. Volume II. 3rd edn. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 600 p.

Gadow H. , A Classification of Vertebrata Recent and Extinct, xvii-82

Moodie R. L. (1909) A contribution to a monograph of the extinct Amphibia of North America. New forms from the Carboniferous, Journal of Geology 17 1, 38-82

Jaekel O. (1911) , Die Wirbeltiere. Eine Übersicht über die Fossilen und Lebenden Formen [The Vertebrates. An Overview of the Fossil and Living Forms], viii-252

Kuhn O. (1946) Das System der fossilen und rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien [The system of fossil and recent amphibians and reptiles], Bericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bamberg 29, 49-67

Gregory J. T. (1948) A New Limbless Vertebrate from the Pennsylvanian of Mazon Creek, Illinois, American Journal of Science 246, 636-663

Huene F. v. (1954) , Die Saurierwelt und ihre Geschichtlichen Zusammenhänge [The World of Reptiles and the History of Their Interrelationships]. 2nd, revised edition, 1-66

Wellstead C. F. (1982) A Lower Carboniferous Aistopod Amphibian from Scotland, Palaeontology 25 1, 193-208

Thayer D. W. (1985) New Pennsylvanian Lepospondyl Amphibians from the Swisshelm Mountains, Arizona, Journal of Paleontology 59 3, 684-700

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Carroll R. L., Bossy K. A., et al (1998) Handbuch der Palaoherpetologie / Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology Teil 1 / Part 1 Lepospondyli: Microsauria, Nectridea, Lysorophia, Adelospondyli, Aistopoda, Acherontiscidae, 1-216

Anderson J. S. (2002) Revision of the Aïstopod Genus Phlegethontia (Tetrapoda: Lepospondyli), Journal of Paleontology 76 6, 1029-1046 doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<1029:ROTAGP>2.0.CO;2

Anderson J. S. (2003) A New Aïstopod (Tetrapoda: Lepospondyli) from Mazon Creek, Illinois, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23 1, 79-88

Maddin H. C., Jenkins Jr F. A., et al (2012) The Braincase of Eocaecilia micropodia (Lissamphibia, Gymnophiona) and the Origin of Caecilians, PLoS One 7 12, e50743 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050743

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