Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Dendrerpetidae

Synonyms: Dendrerpeton oweni Dawson 1863, Hylonomus aciedentatus Dawson 1860, Smilerpeton aciedentatum Dawson 1860

Full reference: R. Owen. 1853. Notes on the above-described fossil remains. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 9:66-67

Belongs to Dendrerpeton according to R. L. Carroll 1967

See also Dawson 1860, Dawson 1863, Hay 1902, Owen 1853, Schoch 2013, Schoch and Milner 2014 and Steen 1934

Sister taxa: Dendrerpeton annectens, Dendrerpeton confusum, Dendrerpeton rugosum

Type specimens:

• Dendrerpeton acadianum: BMNH R4158 (lectotype, designated by Carroll, 1967), a partial skull (partial dermal roof and fragments of palate). Its type locality is Coal Mine Point; Divison 4, Section XV, coal-group 15, which is in a Westphalian A mire/swamp sandstone/coal in the Joggins Formation of Canada.
• Dendrerpeton oweni: RM 2.1121, a partial skeleton (skull table, maxilla, ilia, scales, vertebrae, and limb bones). Its type locality is Coal Mine Point; Divison 4, Section XV, coal-group 15, which is in a Westphalian A mire/swamp sandstone/coal in the Joggins Formation of Canada.
• Hylonomus aciedentatus: RM 2.1125, a partial skeleton (lower jaw, impression of the ventral surface of the posterior margin of the skull roof, parasphenoid, ilium, cleithrum, and vertebrae). Its type locality is Coal Mine Point; Divison 4, Section XV, coal-group 15, which is in a Westphalian A mire/swamp sandstone/coal in the Joggins Formation of Canada.

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution:

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