 However, it is also explained that rather than escaping to the trees by choice, they get trapped.This works particularly for terrestrial animals such as "Dendrerpeton," however other taxa are also found and there is evidence of their survival within these stumps for some period of time, proven by the presence of coprolitic material preserved in the fossils.Temnospondyls are said to be found from the Carboniferous to the middle-Cretaceous, and "Dendrerpeton" considered to be of the earliest or base of the Temnospndyls indicating its existence primarily during the Carboniferous.