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Anonymous10/01/26, 22:43No.5165214Modern amphibians are temnospondyls the same way birds are dinosaurs
How many users here realize that calling Lissamphibia (modern amphibians) Temnospondyli is the equivalent of calling birds dinosaurs? The consensus is nearly absolute, with the exception of David Marjanovic and Michel Laurin, who theorize that Lepospondyli gave rise to Lissamphibia, but their views are as marginal as Feduccia’s are in the world of ornithology regarding bird evolution.
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Anon10/01/26, 22:48No.5165216
It is truly fascinating to think that temnospondyls are still alive today.
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Anon10/01/26, 22:54No.5165217
There is even the hypothesis proposed by Pardo (2017) stating that Lissamphibia is not a monophyletic group, but that all three lineages are temnospondyls, and caecilians would be stereospondyls. The fossil in question is Chinlestegophis jenkinsi.
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Anon10/08/26, 06:51No.5166752
Is the japanese giant salamander basically the closest convergent thing we have to what these wouldve looked like?
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Anon10/08/26, 15:24No.5166810
I was not keyed in to recent amphibian research well enough to know this. That’s baller.
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Anon10/09/26, 21:02No.5167084
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Anon10/09/26, 22:11No.5167100
Why is he like this?
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Anon10/12/26, 16:58No.5167797
We need to talk more about Amphibamiformes. By far the most important clade of temnospondys. the one that gave rise to modern amphibians.
It is equivalent to Paraves, Avialae, or similar groups among dinosaurs.
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Anon10/15/26, 17:50No.5168574
Yeah I realized previously.
Dunno what else to say, really. Makes speculating on their appearances in life difficult I supposed; at least with dinosaurs you can cross birds with crocodilians to get a wider range in reconstruction.