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Seroherpeton

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Seroherpeton
Temporal range: Late Wuchiapingian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Clade: Tetrapodomorpha
Order: Embolomeri
Genus: Seroherpeton
Chen & Liu, 2020
Type species
Seroherpeton yangquanensis
Chen & Liu, 2020

Seroherpeton is an extinct genus of embolomere known from the Late Permian aged Sunjiagou Formation of Northern China. It is the youngest known embolomere, with the previous youngest members being from the Cisuralian, and also lived further north than any other embolomere, with all other known members of the group being from Euramerica. It is known from a partial skull, consisting of portions of the maxilla, ectopterygoid, pterygoid and quadrate.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Chen, Jianye; Liu, Jun (2020-12-01). "The youngest occurrence of embolomeres (Tetrapoda: Anthracosauria) from the Sunjiagou Formation (Lopingian, Permian) of North China". Fossil Record. 23 (2): 205–213. doi:10.5194/fr-23-205-2020. ISSN 2193-0066.