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PALAEOMOLGOPHIS
(pay-le-o-mol-go-fis)
meaning: "ancient Molgophis"
Palaeomolgophis
Named By: M. C. Brough & J. Brough in 1967
Time Period: Early Carboniferous, 345.3-326.4 Ma
Location: Scotland
Size: Roughly about 18 centimetres long
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Partial skull and post cranial skeleton
Classification: | Chordata | Amphibia | Adelospondyli | Adelogyrinidae |
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Palaeomolgophis is an extinct genus of eel-like prehistoric amphibian. Their limbs are much reduced, and they were probably were fully aquatic.

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