| Hylerpeton Temporal range: Bashkirian, 318–314 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Microsauria |
| Family: | †Gymnarthridae |
| Genus: | †Hylerpeton Owen, 1862 |
Hylerpeton is an extinct genus of microsaurian tetrapods belonging to the family Gymnarthridae from the late Carboniferous period.
The nominal species "Hylerpeton" longidentatum Dawson, 1876 was considered possibly non-microsaurian by Steen (1934) and Carroll (1966), and was eventually recognized as a member of Aistopoda and renamed Andersonerpeton longidentatum by Pardo and Mann (2018) as the type species of a new genus.
References
- R. Owen. 1862. Description of Specimens of Fossil Reptilia discovered in the Coal-measures of the South Joggins, Nova Scotia, by Dr. J. W. Dawson, FGS, etc. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 18:238-244
- R. L. Carroll, K. A. Bossy, A. C. Milner, S. M. Andrews, and C. F. Wellstead. 1998. Handbuch der Palaoherpetologie / Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology Teil 1 / Part 1 Lepospondyli: Microsauria, Nectridea, Lysorophia, Adelospondyli, Aistopoda, Acherontiscidae. 1-216
- Steen MC. 1934. The amphibian fauna from the South Joggins, Nova Scotia. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 104, 465-504. (doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1934.tb01644.x)
- Carroll R. 1966. Microsaurs from the Westphalian B of Joggins, Nova Scotia. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 177, 63-97. (doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1966.tb00952.x)
- Jason D. Pardo and Arjan Mann, 2018. A basal aïstopod from the earliest Pennsylvanian of Canada, and the antiquity of the first limbless tetrapod lineage5Royal Society Open Science http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.181056
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