Eocaecilia

Eocaecilia est genus exstinctum cuiusdam caeciliani (amphibii cruribus carentis) e Formatione Kayenta aevi Iurassici in Arizona in Civitatibus Foederatis effossi. Eocaecilia micropodia est typus et sola species descripta.

Calvaria holotypi. Scansio trium dimensionum.

Animalia — Chordata

Classis : Amphibia
Subclassis : Lissamphibia
Ordo : Gymnophiona
Familia : [Incerta]
Genus : †Eocaecilia
Species : †E. micropodia

Palaeontologia

Iurassico inferiori

Pinacotheca

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Jenkins, F. A., et D. M. Walsh. 1993. An Early Jurassic caecilian with limbs. Nature 365: 246-50.
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