The earliest Tupilakosaurid Amphibian with Diplospondylous Vertebrae from the Late Permian of Southern France.

• Main Authors: Werneburg, Ralf, Steyer, Jean-Sébastien, Sommer, Georg, Gand, Georges, Schneider, Jörg, W., Vianey-Liaud, Monique
• Other Authors: Naturhistorisches Museum Schloss Bertholdsburg, 1Naturhistorisches Museum Schloss Bertholdsburg, Paléobiodiversité et paléoenvironnements, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Biogéosciences UMR 6282 (BGS), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Palaeontology - Institute for Geology, Technishe Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (TU Bergakademie Freiberg), Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement IRD : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), grants DFG-SCHN 408/7-1 and 2, DFG-We 2833/2-1 and DFG-We 2833/3-1
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2007
• Subjects: [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology; Greenland
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00195955; https://doi.org/10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[26:TETAWD]2.0.CO;2

5 pages International audience A well-preserved vertebral column from the Late Permian of Southern France (Lopingian, La Lieude Formation, Lodève Basin) is described. It is composed of diplospondylous vertebrae and is most comparable with the temnospondyl Tupilakosaurus previously known from the Early Triassic of Greenland and Russia. This new specimen therefore represents the earliest occurrence of a diplospondylous tupilakosaur, and extends the geographic range of the group to Western Europe. It is an aquatic temnospondyl that used the anguilliform undulatory mode of swimming.