Eocaecilia

Calvaria holotypi. Scansio trium dimensionum.

Animalia — Chordata

Classis : Amphibia
Subclassis : Lissamphibia
Ordo : Gymnophiona
Familia : [Incerta]
Genus : †Eocaecilia
Species : †E. micropodia

Palaeontologia

Iurassico inferiori

Eocaecilia est genus exstinctum cuiusdam caeciliani (amphibii cruribus carentis) e Formatione Kayenta aevi Iurassici in Arizona in Civitatibus Foederatis effossi. Eocaecilia micropodia est typus et sola species descripta.

Pinacotheca

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Jenkins, F. A., et D. M. Walsh. 1993. An Early Jurassic caecilian with limbs. Nature 365: 246-50.
Jenkins, F. A., et alii. 2007. Anatomy of Eocaecilia micropodia, A Limbed Caecilian of the Early Jurassic. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 158(6): 285–365.
Maddin H. C., F. A. Jenkins, et J. S. Anderson. 2012/ The Braincase of Eocaecilia micropodia (Lissamphibia, Gymnophiona) and the Origin of Caecilians. PLoS ONE 7(12): e50743.