Crassigyrinus Temporal range: Viséan
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3D skull reconstruction | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Clade: | Tetrapodomorpha |
Clade: | Stegocephali |
Family: | †Crassigyrinidae von Huene, 1948 |
Genus: | †Crassigyrinus Watson, 1929 |
Type species | |
†Crassigyrinus scoticus Watson, 1929
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Crassigyrinus (from Latin: crassus, 'thick' and Greek: γυρίνος Greek: gyrínos, 'tadpole') is an extinct genus of carnivorous stem tetrapod from the Early Carboniferous Limestone Coal Group of Scotland and possibly Greer, West Virginia.[1]