# Crinodon

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***Crinodon*** is an extinct [genus](/source/Genus) of [microsaur](/source/Microsaur) within the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Tuditanidae](/source/Tuditanidae).[1][2][3] The type and only species ***C. limnophyes*** was found in [Carboniferous](/source/Carboniferous) deposits of Nyrany ([Czech Republic](/source/Czech_Republic)) and described by M. C. Steen in 1938 as *Ricnodon limnophyes*.[4] It was assigned to the new genus *Crinodon* by R. L. Carroll and P. Gaskill in 1978.[5]

## References

1. ["Fossilworks: Crinodon"](https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=37283). *fossilworks.org*. Retrieved 2019-05-22.

1. Carroll, Robert Lynn & Gaskill, Pamela (1978). [*The Order Microsauria*](https://books.google.com/books?id=mjcyaQw78X4C&dq=Crinodon&pg=PA24). American Philosophical Society. ISBN 9780871691262.

1. Clack, Jennifer A. (2002). [*Gaining Ground: The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods*](https://books.google.com/books?id=ruNZCfmQOsIC&dq=Crinodon&pg=PA282). Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253340542.

1. M. C. Steen. 1938. On the fossil Amphibia from the Gas Coal of Nyrany and other deposits of Czechoslovakia. *Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London* **108**:205-283

1. R. L. Carroll and P. Gaskill. 1978. The Order Microsauria. *Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society* **126**:1-211

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