Macrerpeton Moodie 1909 (tetrapod)

Amphibia - Temnospondyli

Full reference: R. L. Moodie. 1909. A contribution to a monograph of the extinct Amphibia of North America. New forms from the Carboniferous. Journal of Geology 17(1):38-82

Parent taxon: Rhachitomi according to R. R. Schoch and A. R. Milner 2021

See also Carroll 1988 and Schoch and Milner 2014

Sister taxa: Dissorophoidea, Dvinosauria, Eryopiformes, Macromerium, Micropholoidea, Perryella, Potamochoston, Sparagmites, Zatracheidae

Subtaxa: Macrerpeton huxleyi

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Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at Linton (Carboniferous of Ohio)

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