Eoherpeton
Name:
Eoherpeton
(Dawn Creeper).
Phonetic: E-o-her-pe-ton.
Named By: A. L. Panchen - 1975.
Classification: Chordata, Reptiliomorpha,
Anthracosauria, Eoherpetontidae.
Species: E. watsoni (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Skull 15 centimetres long. Total body
length estimated about 1 meter long.
Known locations: Scotland - Limestone Coal Group.
Time period: Serpukhovian/Bashkirian of the
Carboniferous.
Fossil representation: Skull and partial pectoral
girdle.
Eoherpeton is a genus of reptilomorph that is known to have lived in what is now Scotland during the Carboniferous.
Further reading
- A new genus and species of anthracosaur amphibian from the Lower
Carboniferous of Scotland and the status of Pholidogaster
pisciformis
Huxley. - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of
London, B. 269: 581-640. - A. L. Panchen - 1975.
- The morphology and relationships of the Carboniferous amphibian
Eoherpeton watsoni Panchen. - Zoological Journal
of the Linnean
Society (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) 85 (4). - T.
R. Smithson - 1985.
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