Alfred Sherwood Romer rejected Säve-Söderbergh's theory of a biphyletic amphibia and used the name Anthracosauria to describe the "labyrinthodont" lineage from which amniotes evolved. In 1970, the German paleontologist Alec Panchen took up Säve-Söderbergh's name for this group as having priority,Panchen, A. L. (1970). Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie - Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology Part 5a - Batrachosauria (Anthracosauria), Gustav Fischer Verlag - Stuttgart & Portland, 83 pp., . but Romer's terminology is still in use, e.g. by Carroll (1988 and 2002) and by Hildebrand & Goslow (2001).Carroll, R. L., (1988): Vertebrate paleontology and evolution. W. H. Freeman and company, New York. Some writers preferring phylogenetic nomenclature use Anthracosauria.Gauthier, J., Kluge, A.G., & Rowe, T. (1988): "The early evolution of the Amniota". In The Phylogeny and Classification of the Tetrapods: Volume 1: Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds. Edited by M.J. Benton. Clarendon Press, Oxford, pp. 103–155.
