Proxilodon

Proxilodon
Temporal range: Early Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subclass: Lepospondyli
Order: "Microsauria"
Clade: Recumbirostra
Genus: Proxilodon
Huttenlocker et al., 2013
Type species
Proxilodon englehorni
(Schultze & Foreman, 1981 [originally Euryodus bonneri])

Proxilodon is an extinct genus of recumbirostran microsaur amphibian from the Early Permian Speiser Formation of Kansas, United States. It contains a single species, Proxilodon bonneri,[1] (formerly "Euryodus" bonneri).

References

  1. Huttenlocker, A. K.; Pardo, J. D.; Small, B. J.; Anderson, J. S. (2013). "Cranial morphology of recumbirostrans (Lepospondyli) from the Permian of Kansas and Nebraska, and early morphological evolution inferred by micro-computed tomography". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (3): 540. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.728998.


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