Ductilodon

Ductilodon
Temporal range: Early Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: "Amphibia" (wide sense)
Subclass: Lepospondyli
Order: Nectridea
Family: Diplocaulidae
Genus: Ductilodon
Gubin, 1999
Type species
Ductilodon pruitti
Gubin, 1999

Ductilodon is an extinct genus of lepospondyl amphibian in the family Diplocaulidae. The type and only species Ductilodon pruitti was named in 1999 from the Early Permian of Kansas. Distinguishing features of Ductilodon include horns that project backward from the skull and an arched row of teeth on the palate. Ductilodon is most closely related to the diplocaulids Diplocaulus and Diploceraspis.[1]

References

  1. Gubin, Y.M. (1999). "A new diplocaulid (Nectridea, Amphibia) from the Early Permian of Kansas (USA)". Paleontological Journal 33 (6): 630–637.
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