Urocordylus

Urocordylus; Temporal range: Pennsylvanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subclass:	†Lepospondyli
Order:	†Nectridea
Family:	†Urocordylidae
Subfamily:	†Urocordylinae
Genus:	†Urocordylus; Wright & Huxley, 1866
Type species
	†Urocordylus wandesfordii; Huxley, 1867
Species
	†Urocordylus angustatus (Fritsch, 1883); †Urocordylus wandesfordii Huxley, 1867;

Urocordylus is an extinct genus of nectridean lepospondyl. It is the type genus of the family Urocordylidae. Fossils have been found from Ireland that date back to the Westphalian stage of the late Carboniferous.^[2] This lepospondyl had total length of about 19.5 in (500 mm), but skull length was only about 1.3 in (33 mm).^[3]

References[]

^ Urocordylus Huxley, 1867 in GBIF Secretariat (2017). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/4816372 on 2019-02-27.
^ Carrol, R. L. (2001). The origin and early radiation of terrestrial vertebrates. Journal of Paleontology 75(6):1202-1213.
^ Huxley, Thomas H.; Wright, E. Perceval (1871). "On a Collection of Fossil Vertebrata, from the Jarrow Colliery, County of Kilkenny, Ireland". The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. 24: 351–370. ISSN 0790-8113.

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