Hylerpeton Temporal range: Bashkirian, | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Family: | † Gymnarthridae |
Genus: | † Hylerpeton Owen, 1862 |
Hylerpeton is an extinct genus of microsaurian tetrapods belonging to the family Gymnarthridae from the late Carboniferous period. [1] [2]
The nominal species "Hylerpeton" longidentatum Dawson, 1876 was considered possibly non-microsaurian by Steen (1934) and Carroll (1966), [3] [4] and was eventually recognized as a member of Aistopoda and renamed Andersonerpeton longidentatum by Pardo and Mann (2018) as the type species of a new genus. [5]