Arkanserpeton
Appearance
Arkanserpeton Temporal range: Early Permian
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Temnospondyli |
Family: | †Dissorophidae |
Genus: | †Arkanserpeton Lane, 1932 |
Type species | |
†Arkanserpeton arcuatum Lane, 1932
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Arkanserpeton is an extinct genus of dissorophoid temnospondyl represented by a fragmentary isolated femur[1] and an isolated neural arch.[2] The specimens were reported from a semianthracite coal bed from the Paris Shale.[1] The names Paris Shale and Fort Smith Formation were abandoned, and the rocks that make up this section were placed in the Savanna Formation.[3] It is not considered to be sufficiently diagnostic and was designated as a nomen dubium by Schoch & Milner (2014).
References
[edit]- ^ a b Lane, Henry Higgins (May 1, 1932). "A new Stegocephalian from the Pennsylvanian of Arkansas". The University of Kansas Science Bulletin. 20 (17): 313–315. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.19200 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Kuhn, Oskar; Wellnhofer, Peter; Sues, Hans-Dieter; Appleby, Robert M., eds. (2014). Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie Part 3A2. Temnospondyli. Munich / Stuttgart / New York: Co-published by F. Pfeil & G. Fischer. ISBN 9783931516260. OCLC 580976.
- ^ Hendricks, Thomas A.; Parks, Bryan (1950). "Geology of the Fort Smith District, Arkansas" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. 221-E.