Vault tales 174 – Clades – Eryopiformes

We're back and with another 'Clades' post. This time, it will be a paraphyletic one, 'Eryopiformes'. This is a crown group of the Temnospondyls, and as the name implies, it consists of the famous big 'amphibian' Eryops, but also the rest of the 'Stereospondyls'--and this group may also include the Gymnophiona, the modern caecillians! As it is, when I revamped my database, I organized using grades, clades and useful (to me) breakdowns...so as a group, the Eryopiformes 'clade' consists of…

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Vault tales Run the Set 73 Iwako Prehistoric erasers

What is this? Well, it's another Run the Set! This time, a selection of erasers from Japan by a company called Iwako. There is no way that I have all of them, but I do have a pretty interesting variety of species among them. What are these? As I said, they are erasers. Of some pretty strange taxa, to be honest. Anyone familiar with browsing Japanese auction sites, etc, will be familiar with the range of collectable erasers available there.…

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