PaleoDB taxon number: 335284
Full reference: H. H. Lane. 1932. A new stegocephalian from the Pennsylvanian of Arkansas. Kansas University Science Bulletin 20:313-315
Belongs to Temnospondyli according to R. R. Schoch and A. R. Milner 2014
Sister taxa: Almasauroidea, Anthichnium, Archegosauriformes, Archegosauroidea, Arkanserpeton, Capetus, Capitosauroides, Colosteoidea, Edopoidea, Edopoidea, Embolomeri, Episcopopus, Eurycervix, Euskelia, Eutemnospondyli, Hemiprichisaurus, Hesperoherpeton, Ichthyostegalia, Labyrinthodon laniarius, Labyrinthodon pachygnathus, Labyrinthodon ventricosus, Limnarchia, Lissamphibia, Lysipterygiidae, Matthewichnus, Nanopus, Orthosauriscus, Otuminisaurus, Otuminisaurus limensis, Palatinerpeton, Petrophryne major, Phrynosuchus, Phrynosuchus whaitsi, Pleuronoura, Porierpeton, Ptychosphenodon, Ptychosphenodon browni, Rhinesuchoidea, Rileymillerus, Saharastega, Saurischiocomes, Saurischiocomes keuperinus, Syphonodon, Syphonodon thecomastodon, Temnocorpichnus, Zatrachys conchigerus
Type specimen: KUVP 9973, a limb element. Its type locality is Paris, Logan County, which is in a Kasimovian terrestrial coal/shale in the Allegheny Formation of Arkansas.
Ecology: amphibious carnivore