Occidens portlocki

Occidens portlocki
Temporal range: Early Carboniferous, 350 Ma
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 Tournaisian
Portlock's 1843 illustration of the jaw of Occidens portlocki, which he attributed to Holoptychius; inner surface (top) and outer surface (bottom)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Clade: Tetrapodomorpha
Clade: Stegocephali
Genus: †Occidens
Clack and Ahlberg, 2004
Species:
†O. portlocki
Binomial name
†Occidens portlocki
Clack and Ahlberg, 2004

Occidens is an extinct genus of stem tetrapod from the Early Carboniferous (Tournaisian) Altagoan Formation of Northern Ireland. It is known from a single type species, Occidens portlocki, named in 2004[1] on the basis of a left lower jaw described by British geologist Joseph Ellison Portlock in 1843.[2]

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