| Eldeceeon Temporal range: middle Mississippian (Viséan),
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Superclass: | Tetrapoda |
| Clade: | Reptiliomorpha (?) |
| Genus: | †Eldeceeon Smithson, 1994 |
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| †Eldeceeon rolfei Smithson, 1994
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Eldeceeon is an extinct genus of reptiliomorph from the Mississippian (early Carboniferous) of Scotland. It is known from two fossil specimens found within the Viséan-age East Kirkton Quarry in West Lothian. The type and only species, E. rolfei, was named in 1994.[1] Eldeceeon is thought to be closely related to embolomeres, but it has several distinguishing features including long limbs and a short trunk. Initially known from two crushed partial skeletons,[1] additional specimens have been reported by Ruta & Clack (2006).[2] Eldeceeon was redescribed by Ruta, Clack, & Smithson (2020). The redescription supported affinities with Silvanerpeton, reconstructed a skull with larger eyes and a shorter snout, and emphasized potential correlations for an enlarge puboischiofemoralis internus 2 muscle.[3]
- ^ a b Smithson, T.R. (1994). "Eldeceeon rolfei, a new reptiliomorph from the Viséan of East Kirkton, West Lothian, Scotland". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences. 84 (3–4): 377–382. doi:10.1017/s0263593300006180.
- ^ Ruta, Marcello; Clack, Jennifer A. (2006). "A review of Silvanerpeton miripede, a stem amniote from the Lower Carboniferous of East Kirkton, West Lothian, Scotland". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences. 97: 31–63. doi:10.1017/S0263593300001395.
- ^ Ruta, Marcello; Clack, Jennifer A.; Smithson, Timothy R. (2020). "A review of the stem amniote Eldeceeon rolfei from the Viséan of East Kirkton, Scotland". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 111 (3): 173–192. doi:10.1017/S1755691020000079. ISSN 1755-6910.