Huskerpeton
Appearance
Huskerpeton Temporal range: Early Permian
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Microsauria |
Clade: | †Recumbirostra |
Genus: | †Huskerpeton Huttenlocker et al., 2013 |
Type species | |
†Huskerpeton englehorni Huttenlocker et al., 2013
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Huskerpeton is an extinct genus of recumbirostran microsaur amphibian from the Early Permian Eskridge Formation of Nebraska, United States. It contains a single species, Huskerpeton englehorni.[1] The genus was named for the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers.
References
- ^ Huttenlocker, A. K.; Pardo, J. D.; Small, B. J.; Anderson, J. S. (2013). "Cranial morphology of recumbirostrans (Lepospondyli) from the Permian of Kansas and Nebraska, and early morphological evolution inferred by micro-computed tomography". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (3): 540. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.728998.