Genus: Limnostygis CARROLL, 1967
Etymology:

Species: relictus CARROLL, 1967
Etymology:

Part of holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 3034

Locality: Dominion Coal Company, strip mine No. 7, 2 miles north of Florence, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia Province, Canada.

Horizon: Morien Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Westphalian D, Lower Upper Silesian series, Myachkovskian stage, Upper Moscovian Epoch, Middle Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous).

Material: 8 dorsal vertebrae.
Note: Found in a lycopod tree stump.