†Desmatodon hesperis Vaughn 1969 (tetrapod)
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Osteichthyes - Cotylosauria - Diadectidae
Full reference: P. P. Vaughn. 1969. Upper Pennsylvanian vertebrates from the Sangre de Cristo Formation of central Colorado. Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science 164:1-28
Belongs to Desmatodon according to P. P. Vaughn 1969
Sister taxon: Desmatodon hollandi
Type specimen: UCLA VP 1706, a maxilla. Its type locality is Badger Creek, Fremont County, which is in a Missourian fluvial-lacustrine shale in the Sangre de Cristo Formation of Colorado.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Badger Creek, Fremont County
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