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Eoscopus

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Eoscopus
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous, 303.4–295.0 Ma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Temnospondyli
Clade: Amphibamiformes
Genus: Eoscopus
Daly, 1994
Type species
Eoscopus lockardi
Daly, 1994

Eoscopus is an extinct genus of dissorophoidean euskelian temnospondyl in the family Micropholidae. It is known from Hamilton Quarry, a Late Carboniferous lagerstätte near Hamilton, Kansas.[1]

Members of Micropholidae were historically included in Amphibamidae, but Schoch (2019) recovered Amphibamidae as paraphyletic, necessitating resurrection of Micropholidae for Micropholis and closely related taxa.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ "†Eoscopus Daly 1994". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. ^ Rainer R. Schoch (2019). "The putative lissamphibian stem-group: phylogeny and evolution of the dissorophoid temnospondyls". Journal of Paleontology. 93 (1): 137–156. Bibcode:2019JPal...93..137S. doi:10.1017/jpa.2018.67. S2CID 134075457.