Eoscopus
Extinct genus of amphibians
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Eoscopus is an extinct genus of dissorophoidean euskelian temnospondyl in the family Micropholidae. It is known from Hamilton Quarry, a Late Carboniferous lagerstätte near Hamilton, Kansas.[1]
| Eoscopus Temporal range: Late Carboniferous, | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Tetrapoda |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Clade: | †Amphibamiformes |
| Genus: | †Eoscopus Daly, 1994 |
| Type species | |
| Eoscopus lockardi Daly, 1994 | |
Members of Micropholidae were historically included in Amphibamidae, but Schoch (2019) recovered Amphibamidae as paraphyletic, necessitating resurrection of Micropholidae for Micropholis and closely related taxa.[2]
