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Phlegethontia Temporal range: Late Carboniferous to Early Permian
Life restoration of P. longissima
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Sarcopterygii
Clade:	Tetrapodomorpha
Order:	†Aistopoda
Family:	†Phlegethontiidae
Genus:	†Phlegethontia Cope, 1871
Species
P. linearis Cope, 1871 (type) P. longissima (Fritsch, 1875)
Synonyms
Aornerpeton Lund, 1978

Phlegethontia is an extinct genus of aïstopod tetrapodomorphs from the Carboniferous and Permian periods of Europe and North America.

It was about 1 metre (3.3 ft) long, and possessed a lightly built skull with many openings, unlike some earlier relatives.

"Dolichosoma" longissima, named by Antonin Fritsch in 1875, has been reassigned to the genus Phlegethontia and is now considered to be P. longissima. "Dolichosoma" has been considered to be a nomen nudum because the holotype was inadequately described through a layer of matrix by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1867.

References

1. "†Phlegethontia Cope 1871". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
2. Palmer, D., ed. (1999). The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals. London: Marshall Editions. p. 54. ISBN 1-84028-152-9.
3. Fritsch, A. (1875). "Über die Fauna der Gaskohle des Pilsner und Rakonitzer Beckens". Sitzungsberichtde er Böhemischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften. Prague. pp. 70–79.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
4. Anderson, J. S. (2002). "Revision of the aïstopod genus Phlegethontia (Tetrapoda: Lepospondyli)". Journal of Paleontology. 76 (6): 1029–1046. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<1029:rotagp>2.0.co;2.
5. Huxley, T. H.; Wright, E. P. (1867). "On a collection of fossil vertebrates, from the Jarrow Colliery, County of Kilkenny, Ireland". Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. 24: 351–369.
6. Baird, D. (1964). "The aïstopod amphibians surveyed". Breviora. 206. Museum of Comparative Zoology: 1–17.

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