Genus: Ophiderpeton HUXLEY, 1866 in ETHERIDGE, 1866
Etymology:

Species: brownriggii HUXLEY, 1867 in WRIGHT & HUXLEY, 1866
Etymology:

Holotype:

Locality: Jarrow colliery, Castlecomer, Kilkenny County, Ireland.

Horizon: Leinster Coals.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Westphalian B, Lower Upper Silesian series, Kashirskian Stage, Lower Moscovian Epoch, Early Middle Pennsylvanian, (Late Carboniferous).

Material: Skeleton, complete except for distal end of column.

Referred material:

JACKSON & MONGAHAN, 1995

GOGAIN, O'SULLIVAN, CLEMENTS, HOARE, MURRAY & JACKSON, 2022

TCD.38365, NMI.F16850, NMI.F14879: Fragmentary specimens.

Syntypes

TCD.T88 (Ex NMING: F14683):

TCD. T89 (Ex NMING: F14681):

TCD.T90 (Ex NMING: F14682):

Locality: Laois County, Ireland.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age Westephalian Stage, Late Carboniferous.

Material:

TCD.38353 (Ex NMING: F14684)


Locality:

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age Westephalian Stage, Late Carboniferous.

Material:

BMNH 41851L: Fragmentary skeleton.

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Species: angustatum (FRITSCH, 1879)
Etymology:
= Dolichosoma angustatum FRITSCH, 1879

Holotype:

Locality:

Horizon:

Material:

Electrotype:

BMNH R362

Locality: Nyrany (Nurschan), Plzen Basin, Bohemia, Czech Republic.

Horizon: Gaskohl.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Westphalian D, Lower Upper Silesian Series, Desmoniensean, Upper Myachkovskian Stage, Upper Moscovian Epoch, Late Carboniferous (Late Pennsylvanian).

Material: Fragmentary skull.
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Species: pectinatum FRITSCH, 1879
Etymology:

Holotype:

Locality:

Horizon:

Material:

LYDEKKER 1890

Electrotypes:

Locality: Nyrany (Nurschan), Plzen Basin, Bohemia, Czech Republic.

Horizon: Gaskohl.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Westphalian D, Lower Upper Silesian Series, Desmoniensean, Upper Myachkovskian Stage, Upper Moscovian Epoch, Late Carboniferous (Late Pennsylvanian).

Material:

BMNH R364: Ventral scutes.

BMNH R365: Fragmentary skeleton.

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Species: corvini FRITSCH, 1880
Etymology:

Holotype:

Locality:

Horizon:

Material:

Electortype: BMNH R366

Locality: Kounova, Kladno-SlanyRakoynika Basin, (Bohemia), Czech Republic.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Permian.

Material: Fragmentary skeleton.
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Species: ?forte FRITSCH, 1895
Etymology:

Holotype: M 630

Locality: Nyrany, Czch Republic.

Horizon:

Material: Fragmentary skeleton.
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Species: scutiferum (FRITSCH, 1901)
Etymology:
= Dolichosoma scutiferum FRITSCH, 1901

Holotype: CGH 235

Locality: Nyrany (Nurschan), Plzen Basin, Bohemia, Czech Republic.

Horizon: Gaskohl.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Westphalian D, Lower Upper Silesian Series, Desmoniensean, Upper Myachkovskian Stage, Upper Moscovian Epoch, Late Carboniferous (Late Pennsylvanian).

Material: Almost complete skeleton.
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Species: kirktonense MILNER, 1993
Etymology: Named after the locality of East Kirkton quarry.

Holotype: NMS G 1988.3.1

Locality: East Kirkton Quarry, Bathgate, west Lothian Province, Scotland, northern United Kingdom.

Horizon: East Kirkton Limestone, West Lothian Oil-Shale Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Dinantian Series, Visean Epoch, Late Carboniferous (Middle Mississippian).

Material: Articulated skull and anterior trunk in counterpart blocks of black shale.

Referred material:

NMS G 1987.7.54: Section of c.13 articulated trunk vertebrae in counterpart slabs of laminated limestone.

BMNH R 12019: Section of c.17 articulated trunk vertebrae in counterpart blocks of ostracod limestone.

S. P. Wood Collection, unnumbered: Section c.23 articulated vertebrae plus a few ribs from ‘contorted limestone’ horizon.

Locality: ‘Old Wall H’, Whitelaw Farm near Bathagate, west Lothian Province, Scotland, northern United Kingdom.

Horizon: West Lothian Oil-Shale Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Dinantian Series, Visean Epoch, Late Carboniferous (Middle Mississippian).

Material:

NMS G. 1986.2.1: Partly disarticulated and very poorly preserved skull and mandibles of a smaller individual plus associated coil of partly articulated trunk vertebrae in counterpart spherulitic limestone slabs.