Keraterpeton
Sign in to saveKeraterpeton is an extinct genus of "nectridean" tetrapodomorphs, previously included within the monotypic Keraterpedontidae family, from the Carboniferous period of Europe (Czech Republic, England and Ireland) and North America (United States); it is the oldest known member of the family Diplocaulidae.
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Keraterpeton is an extinct genus of "nectridean" tetrapodomorphs, previously included within the monotypic Keraterpedontidae family, from the Carboniferous period of Europe (Czech Republic, England and Ireland) and North America (United States); it is the oldest known member of the family Diplocaulidae.
== Discovery and naming == The type species is Keraterpeton galvani, named in 1866 as Ceraterpeton by Robert Etheridge and later amended to Keraterpeton in 1868 by Thomas Henry Huxley and Edward Percival Wright; three years earlier (in November 1865), they were authorised by William Bookey Brownrigg to describe some fossil vertebrates in his collection, and among them was NHMING F 14735, the holotype of Keraterpeton galvani, which was discovered in the Jarrow Colliery in County Kilkenny, Ireland.
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