Peronedon
| Peronedon Temporal range: Early Permian | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | "Amphibia" (wide sense) |
| Subclass: | †Lepospondyli |
| Order: | †Nectridea |
| Family: | †Diplocaulidae |
| Genus: | †Peronedon Olson, 1970 |
| Type species | |
| †Peronedon primus Olson, 1970 | |
Peronedon is an extinct genus of lepospondyl amphibian in the family Diplocaulidae. It is distinguished from other diplocaulids by the absence of a postorbital.[1]
Phylogeny
Below is a cladogram modified from Germain (2010):[1]
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References
- 1 2 Germain, D. (2010). "The Moroccan diplocaulid: the last lepospondyl, the single one on Gondwana". Historical Biology 22 (1-3): 4–39. doi:10.1080/08912961003779678.
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