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Lissamphibia

After documenting 4,200 corrected matrix cells and adding 56 terminal taxa, one expanded morphology analysis recovered a lepospondyl-origin tree as 9–10 steps shorter than constrained temnospondyl alternatives, while reporting generally low bootstrap support. This navigation entry is not a phylogeny or a complete taxon dossier.

Represented range0–Present Ma
Content packageamphibia
PBDBNot linked

Evidence boundary

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Claim ledger

topology · contested

A 33-taxon, 108-character dissorophoid analysis recovered sampled lissamphibians within Amphibamiformes near Gerobatrachus, supporting a monophyletic temnospondyl-origin hypothesis while retaining polytomies, homoplasy and unresolved support.

claim:taxon:lissamphibia:temnospondyl-hypothesis
topology · contested

After documenting 4,200 corrected matrix cells and adding 56 terminal taxa, one expanded morphology analysis recovered a lepospondyl-origin tree as 9–10 steps shorter than constrained temnospondyl alternatives, while reporting generally low bootstrap support.

claim:taxon:lissamphibia:lepospondyl-hypothesis
topology · contested

The Chinlestegophis analysis placed two Late Triassic skulls on the caecilian stem and drew stereospondyls into Lissamphibia, whereas the later Funcusvermis analysis recovered a dissorophoid gymnophionomorph stem and did not retain that stereospondyl-caecilian route.

claim:taxon:lissamphibia:stereospondyl-caecilian-hypothesis
fossil-range · contested

Competing lissamphibian-origin hypotheses change which Paleozoic and Triassic fossils can bound the group, so the former 250 Ma–present composite is withheld pending a declared crown/total definition and hypothesis-specific calibration.

claim:taxon:lissamphibia:range-boundary

Known limits

References

  1. Triassic stem caecilian supports dissorophoid origin of living amphibiansKligman, B.T.; Gee, B.M.; Marsh, A.D.; Nesbitt, S.J.; Smith, M.E.; Parker, W.G.; Stocker, M.R. · 2023 · DOI 10.1038/s41586-022-05646-5
  2. Open Tree of Life web servicesOpenTreeOfLife Project
  3. The Paleobiology Database application programming interfacePeters, S.E.; McClennen, M. · 2016 · DOI 10.1017/pab.2015.39
  4. Phylogeny of Paleozoic limbed vertebrates reassessed through revision and expansion of the largest published relevant data matrixMarjanović, D.; Laurin, M. · 2019 · DOI 10.7717/peerj.5565
  5. The putative lissamphibian stem-group: phylogeny and evolution of the dissorophoid temnospondylsSchoch, R.R. · 2019 · DOI 10.1017/jpa.2018.67
  6. Stem caecilian from the Triassic of Colorado sheds light on the origins of LissamphibiaPardo, J.D.; Small, B.J.; Huttenlocker, A.K. · 2017 · DOI 10.1073/pnas.1706752114
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