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Eogyrinidae

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Eogyrinidae
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous
Skull of Neopteroplax conemaughensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Clade: Tetrapodomorpha
Order: Embolomeri
Family: Eogyrinidae
Watson, 1929
Genera

Calligenethlon
Carbonoherpeton
Diplovertebron
Eogyrinus
Leptophractus
Neopteroplax
Palaeoherpeton
Pholiderpeton
Pteroplax

Eogyrinidae is an extinct family of large, long-bodied tetrapods that lived in the rivers of the Late Carboniferous period.