Notorhizodon

Notorhizodon
Temporal range: Devonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Eotetrapodiformes
Family: †Tristichopteridae
Genus: †Notorhizodon
Young et al., 1992
Species:
†N. mackelveyi
Binomial name
†Notorhizodon mackelveyi
Young et al., 1992

Notorhizodon is an extinct genus of tristichopterid tetrapodomorphs which lived during the Devonian period (Givetian stage, about 385 - 391 million years ago). Fossils have been found in Antarctica and described by Young et al. in 1992. Notorhizodon probably lived in freshwaters.

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