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land animals were not the amphibians of today, they were very, very different
animals. The earliest amphibians had scales and quite robust skeletons,
particularly ribs which modern amphibians lack. While superficially they may
look like salamanders, they were not salamanders at all. The earlier groups
likely had a significantly different physiology than modern amphibians.
Furthermore, the early fossils are far more associated with fresh-water
habitats than marine, so there is a good chance that the transitionary bridge
you are looking for are not from marine to land, but from fresh-water to land.
This is supported by the fact that precursor organisms that are believed to
have led to amphibians were lung-breathing fish, fish that developed lungs
because they theoretically inhabited low oxygen, fresh-water habitats like
swamps and marshes. The few marine amphibians from this time might
represent a "returning to the sea" scenario you are looking for.
However, you are somewhat incorrect that there are no modern instances of
land amphibians returning to the 'sea', albeit I would have to say I'm taking a
very generous application of the word 'sea'. The least known order of
amphibians, Order Gymnophiona, the caecilians, represents exactly such a
case of terrestrial back to aquatic. The more ancestral forms of caecilians,
such as the genus Icthyophis are a group that do the land/aquatic lifestyle we
typically associate with most amphibians. These then evolved to more
modern forms that are fully terrestrial, in fact they're fossorial, meaning they
live underground. In South America, a lineage of caecilians family
Typhlonectidae (although some say subfamily Typhlonectinae) have some
members that have returned to a fully aquatic lifestyle, just not in a marine
environment. These are all found east of the Andes in the Amazon area.