Echinerpeton Reisz 1972 (pelycosaur)

Osteichthyes - Pelycosauria

Full reference: R. R. Reisz. 1972. Pelycosaurian Reptiles from the Middle Pennsylvanian of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 144(2):27-60

Parent taxon: Pelycosauria according to R. R. Reisz 1986

See also Carroll 1988 and Reisz 1972

Sister taxa: Caseamorpha, Edaphosauria, Lupeosaurus, Milosaurus, Nitosaurus, Ophiacodontia, Protoclepsydrops, Xyrospondylus

Subtaxa: Echinerpeton intermedium

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominion Coal Co. strip mine No. 7 (Carboniferous of Nova Scotia)

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