Calligenethlon Temporal range: Late Carboniferous |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Embolomeri |
Family: | †Eogyrinidae |
Genus: |
†Calligenethlon Steen, 1934 |
Type species | |
†Calligenethlon watsoni Steen, 1934 |
Calligenethlon is an extinct genus of embolomere reptiliomorph from the Late Carboniferous of Joggins, Nova Scotia. It is the only definitively identified embolomere from the Joggins Fossil Cliffs and is the largest tetrapod to have been found preserved in lycopod tree stumps.