Re: Devonian origin of amniotes.

On 5/24/25 12:37 PM, Popping Mad wrote:

On 5/14/25 8:01 PM, erik simpson wrote:

The implications for the early evolution of tetrapods are profound; all
stem-tetrapod and stem-amniote lineages must have originated during the
Devonian. It seems that tetrapod evolution proceeded much faster, and
the Devonian tetrapod record is much less complete, than has been thought.

  right - you think we  know  all we need to from a few dozen fossils
covering more than 100 million years of evolutionary life?

We'll probably never have all we need to understand all the details, but these recent findings certainly help the overall picture.