Deltaherpeton
Name:
Deltaherpeton
(Delta creeper).
Phonetic: Del-tah-her-pe-ton.
Named By: J. R. Bolt & R. E.
Lombard - 2010.
Classification: Chordata, Tetrapoda,
Temnospondyli, Colosteidae.
Species: D. hiemstrae
(type).
Diet: Piscivore/Carnivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: USA, Iowa - St. Louis
Formation.
Time period: Viséan of the Carboniferous.
Fossil representation: Skull.
Deltaherpeton is a genus of temnospondyl amphibian that lived in what is now the USA during the Carboniferous. Deltaherpeton is noted as having a similarity to both Colosteus and Pholidogaster.
Further reading
- Deltaherpeton hiemstrae, a new colosteid
tetrapod from the
Mississippian of Iowa. - Journal of Paleontology
84(6):1135-1151. - J. R. Bolt & R. E.
Lombard - 2010.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Random favourites
 |
 |
 |