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Extinct genus of tetrapods For other uses, see Tuditanus (disambiguation).

Tuditanus
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Microsauria
Family: †Tuditanidae
Genus: †Tuditanus
Cope, 1871

Tuditanus is an extinct genus of tuditanid microsaur from the Carboniferous, ~ 306 Ma ago. It was of small size, reaching a length of about 24 cm.

Life reconstruction of Tuditanus punctulatus

References

  1. Carroll, R. L.; Gaskill, P. (1978). "The Order Microsauria". Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society. 126: 1–211. ISBN 9780871691262.
  2. Carroll, R. L.; Baird, D. (1968). "The Carboniferous amphibian Tuditanus [Eosauravus] and the distinction between microsaurs and reptiles [brackets in the original]". American Museum Novitates (2337): 1–50. hdl:2246/2547.
"Microsauria"
Tetrapodomorpha
Reptiliomorpha
Microsauria
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"Microsauria"
"Microsauria"
Tuditanidae
Pantylidae
Ostodolepididae
Gymnarthridae
Odonterpetidae
Hapsidopareiidae
Rhynchonkidae
Chthonosauria
Lysorophia
Brachystelechidae
Lissamphibia?
Tuditanus punctulatus

Pantylus cordatus Pelodosotis elongatum

Brachydectes newberryi
Taxon identifiers
Tuditanus


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