Oestocephalus nanum Hancock and Atthey 1868

Osteichthyes - Aistopoda - Oestocephalidae

Alternative combination: Ophiderpeton nanum

Belongs to Oestocephalus according to A. C. Milner 1994

See also Carroll et al. 1998

Sister taxa: Oestocephalus amphiuminum, Oestocephalus granulosum, Oestocephalus pectinatus, Oestocephalus rectidens, Oestocephalus vicinum

Type specimen: Hancock Museum G25.34, a skeleton. Its type locality is Hannah Pit, Newsham, which is in a Bashkirian terrestrial coal in the Middle Coal Measures Formation of the United Kingdom.

Distribution: found only at Hannah Pit, Newsham

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