Palaeomolgophis Temporal range: Early Carboniferous,
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Clade: | Tetrapodomorpha |
Order: | †Adelospondyli |
Family: | †Adelogyrinidae |
Genus: | †Palaeomolgophis M. C. Brough & J. Brough, 1967 |
Type species | |
†Palaeomolgophis scoticus M. C. Brough & J. Brough, 1967
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Palaeomolgophis is an extinct genus of eel-like adelospondyl tetrapodomorphs containing a single species—Palaeomolgophis scoticus.[1] Their limbs are much reduced, and they were probably fully aquatic.[2][3]