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Early land vertebrates

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A 350-million-year-old fossil provides evidence of an almost unknown stage in the origin of land vertebrates. It is also a reminder of how little is known of the relationships between the main lineages of amphibians and reptiles.

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Figure 1: Temporal and evolutionary context for the newly described amphibian Pederpes3.

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