Apodops
| Apodops | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Gymnophiona |
| Clade: | Apoda |
| Family: | Caeciliidae |
| Genus: | †Apodops Estes & Wake 1972 |
| Type species | |
| Apodops pricei Estes & Wake 1972
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Apodops is an extinct genus of early caecilians from the Early Eocene Itaboraí Formation of Brazil. The type species of the genus is A. pricei.[1]
References[]
- ^ Apodops at Fossilworks.org
Further reading[]
- R. Estes and M. H. Wake. 1972. The first fossil record of caecilian amphibians. Nature 239:228-231
- Biology of Amphibians by William E. Duellman and Linda Trueb
- The Big Book Of Dinosaurs by David Norman
- Amphibians: The World of Frogs, Toads, Salamanders and Newts by Robert Hofrichter
- Colbert's Evolution of the Vertebrates: A History of the Backboned Animals Through Time by Edwin H. Colbert, Michael Morales, and Eli C. Minkoff
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Categories:
- Caeciliidae
- Eocene amphibians
- Paleogene amphibians of South America
- Eocene animals of South America
- Itaboraian
- Paleogene Brazil
- Fossils of Brazil
- Fossil taxa described in 1972
- Prehistoric amphibian stubs
- Caeciliidae stubs