Trihecaton howardinus Vaughn 1972 (tetrapod)

Amphibia - Microsauria - Trihecatontidae

Full reference: P. P. Vaughn. 1972. More vertebrates including a new microsaur from the Upper Pennsylvanian of central Colorado. Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science 223:1-30

Belongs to Trihecaton according to Vaughn 1972

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UCLA VP 1743, a skeleton. Its type locality is Interval 300 of section of the Sangre de Cristo Formation, which is in a Moscovian terrestrial horizon in the Sangre de Cristo Formation of Colorado.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of United States (2: Colorado collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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