Brachydectes Explained

Brachydectes is an extinct genus of lysorophian tetrapods that lived from the Late Carboniferous to the Early Permian. It had a very small head and long body, B. elongatus had NaNcm (-2,147,483,648inches) long skull (averagely 1.4cm (00.6inches)) and pre-sacral length up to 150cm (60inches) (averagely 45cm (18inches)),^{[1] [2]} while B. newberryi, which have proportionally larger skull than B. elongatus, for specimen with 7.6mm skull roof had estimated total length of 11cm (04inches), while the largest skull exceeds 3cm (01inches).^[3]

References

• Gaining Ground: The Origin and Early Evolution of Tetrapods by Jennifer A. Clack
• Amniote Origins: Completing the Transition to Land by Stuart Sumida and Karen L.M Martin

Notes and References

1. Laurin . Michel . 2004-08-01 . The Evolution of Body Size, Cope's Rule and the Origin of Amniotes . Systematic Biology . 53 . 4 . 594–622 . 10.1080/10635150490445706 . 15371249 . 1076-836X.
2. Wellstead . Carl F. . 1991 . Taxonomic revision of the Lysorophia, Permo-Carboniferous lepospondyl amphibians. . Bulletin of the AMNH . 209 . 2246/904.
3. Pardo . Jason D. . Anderson . Jason S. . 2016-08-26 . Cranial Morphology of the Carboniferous-Permian Tetrapod Brachydectes newberryi (Lepospondyli, Lysorophia): New Data from µCT . PLOS ONE . en . 11 . 8 . e0161823 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0161823 . 1932-6203 . 5001628 . 27563722 . free .