''Palaeomolgophis'' is an extinct
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of eel-like
adelospondyl
Adelospondyli is an order of elongated, presumably aquatic, Carboniferous amphibians (''sensu lato''). They have a robust skull roofed with solid bone, and orbits located towards the front of the skull. The limbs were almost certainly absent, al ...
tetrapodomorph
Tetrapodomorpha (also known as Choanata) is a clade of vertebrates consisting of tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) and their closest sarcopterygian relatives that are more closely related to living tetrapods than to living lungfish. Advanced for ...
s containing a single species—''Palaeomolgophis scoticus''. Their limbs are much reduced, and they were probably fully aquatic.
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2D, stereoscopic, and 3D imagery of the type specimen of ''Palaeomolgophis scoticus''
Adelospondyli
Mississippian sarcopterygians of Europe
Fossils of Scotland
Fossil taxa described in 1967
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