Calligenethlon

{{Short description|Extinct genus of tetrapodomorphs}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Calligenethlon

| fossil_range = Late Carboniferous

| authority = Steen, 1934

| type_species = {{extinct}}Calligenethlon watsoni

| type_species_authority = Steen, 1934

}}

Calligenethlon is an extinct genus of embolomere tetrapodomorphs from the Late Carboniferous of Joggins, Nova Scotia.{{Cite journal|last=Steen|first=Margaret C.|date=September 1934|title=The Amphibian Fauna from the South Joggins. Nova Scotia|journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London|language=en|volume=104|issue=3|pages=465–504|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1934.tb01644.x|issn=0370-2774}}{{cite journal |last=Holmes |first=R.B. |author2=Carroll, R.L. |year=2010 |title=An articulated embolomere skeleton (Amphibia: Anthracosauria) from the Lower Pennsylvanian (Bashkirian) of Nova Scotia |journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=47 |issue=3 |pages=209–219 |doi=10.1139/E10-008 }} It is the only definitively identified embolomere from the Joggins Fossil Cliffs and is the largest tetrapod to have been found preserved in lycopod tree stumps.{{cite journal |last=Godfrey |first=S. |author2=Holmes, R.B. |author3= Laurin, M. |year=1991 |title=Articulated remains of a Pennsylvanian embolomere (Amphibia: Anthracosauria) from Joggins, Nova Scotia |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=213–219 |doi=10.1080/02724634.1991.10011388 }}