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From: Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov>
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Subject: Re: Devonian origin of amniotes.
Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 15:37:51 -0400
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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?