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Brachydectes

Brachydectes

Cope, 1868

GBIF:165484408

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PROFILE

Species Profile

Characteristics

Extant Carboniferous

ABOUT

Descriptions(1)

Reconstructed skull

Brachydectes is an extinct genus of lysorophian amphibian that lived from the Carboniferous. It had a very small head (skull length about 1.7 cm) and an elongated body up to 43 cm long.http://www.angellis.net/Web/PDfiles/amphs.pdf Life reconstruction of Brachydectes newberryi
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CLASSIFICATION

Taxonomic Classification Tree

MULTIMEDIA

Media Files(1)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Brachydectes.jpg

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Source Information

English Wikipedia - Species Pages

checklist
Species pages extracted from the English Wikipedia article XML dump from 2022-08-02. Multimedia, vernacular names and textual descriptions are extracted, but only pages with a taxobox or speciesbox template are recognized. See https://github.com/mdoering/wikipedia-dwca for details.

Döring M (2022). English Wikipedia - Species Pages. Wikimedia Foundation. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/c3kkgh accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-15.

LicensePublished 8/2/2022View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
165484408
Dataset Key
cbb6498e-8927-405a-916b-576d00a6289b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
6006554
Taxon ID
17779995
Last Crawled
6/4/2026
Last Interpreted
6/4/2026