Calligenethlon

Calligenethlon
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Embolomeri
Family: Eogyrinidae
Genus: Calligenethlon
Steen, 1934
Type species
Calligenethlon watsoni
Steen, 1934

Calligenethlon is an extinct genus of embolomere reptiliomorph from the Late Carboniferous of Joggins, Nova Scotia.[1] It is the only definitively identified embolomere from the Joggins Fossil Cliffs and is the largest tetrapod to have been found preserved in lycopod tree stumps.[2]

References

  1. Holmes, R.B.; Carroll, R.L. (2010). "An articulated embolomere skeleton (Amphibia: Anthracosauria) from the Lower Pennsylvanian (Bashkirian) of Nova Scotia". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 47 (3): 209–219. doi:10.1139/E10-008.
  2. Godfrey, S.; Holmes, R.B.; Laurin, M. (1991). "Articulated remains of a Pennsylvanian embolomere (Amphibia: Anthracosauria) from Joggins, Nova Scotia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11 (2): 213–219. doi:10.1080/02724634.1991.10011388.