Crinodon
Temporal range: Carboniferous (Westphalian)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subclass: Lepospondyli
Order: Microsauria
Family: Tuditanidae
Genus: Crinodon
Carroll & Gaskill, 1978
Species

Crinodon limnophyes Steen, 1938

Synonyms

Ricnodon limnophyes Steen, 1938

Crinodon is an extinct genus of microsaur within the family Tuditanidae.[1][2][3] The type and only species C. limnophyes was found in Carboniferous deposits of Nyrany (Czech Republic) and described by M. C. Steen in 1938 as Ricnodon limnophyes.[4] It was assigned to the new genus Crinodon by R. L. Carroll and P. Gaskill in 1978.[5]

See also

References

  1. "Fossilworks: Crinodon". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
  2. Carroll, Robert Lynn; Gaskill, Pamela (1978). The Order Microsauria. American Philosophical Society. ISBN 9780871691262.
  3. Clack, Jennifer A. (2002). Gaining Ground: The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253340542.
  4. M. C. Steen. 1938. On the fossil Amphibia from the Gas Coal of Nyrany and other deposits of Czechoslovakia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 108:205-283
  5. R. L. Carroll and P. Gaskill. 1978. The Order Microsauria. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 126:1-211


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