Ophiderpeton brownriggi Wright and Huxley 1871 (tetrapod)

Osteichthyes - Aistopoda - Ophiderpetontidae

Full reference: E. P. Wright and T. H. Huxley. 1871. On a Collection of Fossil Vertebrata, from the Jarrow Colliery, County of Kilkenny, Ireland. Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 24:351-370

Belongs to Ophiderpeton according to A. C. Milner 1994

See also Carroll et al. 1998

Sister taxa: Ophiderpeton amphiuminum, Ophiderpeton kirktonense, Ophiderpeton swisshelmense

Type specimen: Its type locality is Jarrow Colliery, which is in a Westphalian A terrestrial coal in Ireland

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Jarrow Colliery

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