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"the smaller brachystelechids Carrolla (Maddin, Olori & Anderson, 2011) and Brachydectes (Pardo & Anderson, 2016)"

That's not Brachydectes, which is not a brachystelechid but a lysorophian; you evidently knew that and mean Quasicaecilia (Pardo, Szostakiwskyj & Anderson, 2015). Write a little more slowly! :-)

See also: "co-ossified posterior brains" (braincases of course).

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"The rectangular ectopterygoids are disarticulated but presumably sutured to the maxilla laterally, to the palatine anteriorly, and to the pterygoid medially (Fig. 7)."

What about caudally (Fig. 7)? The pterygoid has this long, buttressed lateral process; is it possible to tell if this process contacted the maxillla – or the jugal – and thereby excluded the ectopterygoid from the margin of the...

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"It is noteworthy that on the right maxilla, the fifth position is followed by a vacant socket, whereas in the left maxilla, the fifth position is vacant but followed by the largest tooth of the row in the sixth position."

In Fig. 1 & 2, it is the left maxilla of OMNH 79031 where the fifth position bears a tooth slightly shorter than the fourth and is followed by an empty socket. Is that the sp...

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Don't feel singled out. Much of the literature of the last few decades is wrong on this.

Goodrich (1930) may have been the first to give the name Tetrapoda a rank (that of superclass). He was not, however, the first to use the taxon name, which was already fairly popular. Most uses before 1930 are informal "tetrapods" (in various languages), but formal ones did occur (and I don't mean the homon...

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