page_title: Moscovian (Carboniferous)
section_title: †Temnospondyls
hierarchical_section_title: Moscovian (Carboniferous) / Moscovian life / Amphibians / †Temnospondyls
caption_attribution_description: English: Life restoration of Isodectes obtusus. Based on the figures in "The cranial morphology and taxonomy of the saurerpetontid Isodectes obtusus comb. nov. (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the Lower Permian of Texas" by Sandra E. K. Sequeira (Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 122(1-2): 237-259).
context_page_description: The Moscovian is in the ICS geologic timescale a stage or age in the Pennsylvanian, the youngest subsystem of the Carboniferous. The Moscovian age lasted from 315.2 to 307 Ma, is preceded by the Bashkirian and is followed by the Kasimovian. The Moscovian overlaps with the European regional Westphalian stage and the North American Atokan and Desmoinesian stages.
caption: Isodectes
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