Pholiderpeton bretonense Romer 1958 (tetrapod)

Osteichthyes - Tetrapoda - Eogyrinidae

Full reference: A. S. Romer. 1958. An embolomere jaw from the mid-Carboniferous of Nova Scotia. Breviora 87:1-8

Belongs to Pholiderpeton according to Romer 1958

Sister taxa: Pholiderpeton attheyi, Pholiderpeton scutigerum

Type specimen: MCZ 2772, a mandible. Its type locality is near Point Edward, which is in a Serpukhovian/Bashkirian terrestrial siltstone in the Point Edward Formation of Canada.

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at near Point Edward

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