Calligenethlon Temporal range: Late Carboniferous
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Clade: | Tetrapodomorpha |
Order: | †Embolomeri |
Family: | †Eogyrinidae |
Genus: | †Calligenethlon Steen, 1934 |
Type species | |
†Calligenethlon watsoni Steen, 1934
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Calligenethlon is an extinct genus of embolomere tetrapodomorphs from the Late Carboniferous of Joggins, Nova Scotia.[1][2] It is the only definitively identified embolomere from the Joggins Fossil Cliffs and is the largest tetrapod to have been found preserved in lycopod tree stumps.[3]