Extinct genus of tetrapodomorphs
Perittodus Temporal range:
early mid-Tournaisian
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Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade :
Sarcopterygii
Clade :
Tetrapodomorpha
Clade :
Stegocephali
Genus:
† Perittodus Clack et al. , 2016
Type species
† Perittodus apsconditus Clack et al. , 2016
Perittodus is an extinct genus of four-limbed stem-tetrapod from the Mississippian (mid-Tournaisian) of Scotland. It contains a single species, Perittodus apsconditus , based on disarticulated skull and postcranial bones from the Ballagan Formation. The lower jaw of the holotype specimen was about 6.8 cm (2.7 in.) in length and had a pattern of dentition similar to the Devonian taxon Ymeria . Perittodus was described in a 2016 study which was devised to fill in the tetrapod and stem-tetrapod faunas of Romer's gap, an interval of the early Carboniferous with few vertebrate fossils. It was one of five new genera named in this study, along with Aytonerpeton , Diploradus , Koilops , and Ossirarus .[1]
^ Clack, Jennifer A.; Bennett, Carys E.; Carpenter, David K.; Davies, Sarah J.; Fraser, Nicholas C.; Kearsey, Timothy I.; Marshall, John E. A.; Millward, David; Otoo, Benjamin K. A.; Reeves, Emma J.; Ross, Andrew J. (2016-12-05). "Phylogenetic and environmental context of a Tournaisian tetrapod fauna". Nature Ecology & Evolution . 1 (1): 2. doi:10.1038/s41559-016-0002. hdl:2381/40933 . ISSN 2397-334X. PMID 28812555. S2CID 22421017.
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