Living Amphibians

• Tree of Life Website Guide to the living amphibians (Lissamphibia)
• Introduction to Salamanders
• Steamy salamander sex story: Press release from Oregon State.
• Tiger Salamanders
• Giant salamanders of Japan and China:
  • The giant salamanders of Japan
  • China and Japan
• Frogs
• Frog Calls
• The Whole Frog Project

Early Tetrapods

• P. 114. The very early tetrapod Pederpes. A 2002 paper: Clack, J. A. 2002. An early tetrapod from 'Romer's Gap'. Nature 418, 72-76, and comment, pp. 35-36. Pederpes is a tetrapod from the very early Carboniferous of Scotland. It has feet better adapted for walking than the tetrapods from the late Devonian of Greenland, but apart from them it is the most primitive tetrapod yet analyzed.
  • National Geographic News, July 4, 2002.
  • BBC News OnLine, July 3, 2002.
  • Pederpes and its significance (among other things) by Bob Patterson, 2002.

• P. 115. Eucritta. Eucritta.

  p. 115. Ancestors of Living Amphibians? Temnospondyls Temnospondyls

  P. 116. Anthracosaurs

  • An early truly terrestrial tetrapod, Discosauriscus, a member of the
  • Seymouriamorpha
  • Seymouria

  The First Amniote? Casineria By Richard Monastersky, from Science News, May 22, 1999.

  P. 117. The Amniotic Egg

  • Amniotes and the amniotic egg
  • Amniotes

  P 119. Parental care in Frogs

  Male frogs that disperse their froglets, piggy-back. National Geographic News, August 7, 2002.

  P. 121. Carboniferous Land Ecology

  • A history of Paleozoic Forests
  • See especially this section on the Carboniferous coal swamp forests
  • P. 121. The Fossil Trees of Joggins, Nova Scotia
    • Dawson's 1863 account of the Carboniferous reptiles of Joggins, Nova Scotia
    • The formation of the fossil trees at Joggins.
    • Joggins

  More on Carboniferous forests and their ecology

  • Web site on Carboniferous coal forest
  • Background discussion of the Yale University Carboniferous and Devonian panorama
  • Fossil plants of Carboniferous swamps
  • More Carboniferous fossils. From Pam Gore's site.
  • Fossil tree-trunk from a Scottish Carboniferous forest
  • Carboniferous plants of Illinois' Mazon Creek Formation
  • Gallery of Mazon Creek fossils from Yale's Peabody Museum.

  Insects

  Dragonflies, past and present:
  • Living and fossil dragonflies at UC Berkeley.
  • Lots of Images of Living Dragonflies Here or
  • Here

  The World's Largest Cockroach: a fossil, of course!

  • BBC News OnLine, November 7, 2001.

  The reference list for Chapter 9, 4th Edition, with associated Web links

  Page last updated, June 8, 2004.

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