Conodectes Cope 1896 (tetrapod)

Osteichthyes - Cotylosauria - Conodectidae

Synonym: Desmospondylus Williston 1910

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1896. The Ancestry of the Testudinata. The American Naturalist 30(353):398-400

Parent taxon: Conodectidae according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Bruner 1991, Carroll et al. 1972, Case 1911, Cope 1896, Hay 1902, Sushkin 1926, Williston 1910 and Williston 1911

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Conodectes favosus

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Type: Conodectes favosus

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Permian of United States (2: Texas collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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