Calligenethlon Temporal range: Late Carboniferous | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Clade: | Tetrapodomorpha |
Order: | † Embolomeri |
Family: | † Eogyrinidae |
Genus: | † Calligenethlon Steen, 1934 |
Type species | |
†Calligenethlon watsoni Steen, 1934 |
Calligenethlon is an extinct genus of embolomere tetrapodomorphs from the Late Carboniferous of Joggins, Nova Scotia. [1] [2] 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. [3]