Cricotus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of tetrapodomorphs}}

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| image = Cricotus.JPG

| taxon = Cricotus

| authority = Cope, 1875

| type_species = {{extinct}}Cricotus heteroclitus
(nomen dubium)

| type_species_authority = Cope, 1875

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Cricotus is an extinct genus of Embolomeri. It was erected by Cope in 1875,Cope ED. 1875. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/4624504?origin=JSTOR-pdf&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents On fossil remains of reptilia and fishes from Illinois]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 27: 404-408. on the basis of fragmentary, not clearly associated remains including caudal vertebrae, on which the name was established (in fact, based on a single intercentrum), as well as a few other postcranial bones. It was little-used in the subsequent literature, contrary to Archeria, which appears to be a junior synonym of Cricotus. However, given that the type species of Cricotus (C. heteroclitus) is a nomen dubium, the name Cricotus is unavailable. This led to HolmesHolmes R. 1989. [http://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/pala/detail/A207/71334/%23 The skull and axial skeleton of the Lower Permian anthracosauroid amphibian] Archeria crassidisca Cope. Palaeontographica Abt. A Palaeozoologie – Stratigraphie 207: 161-206. suggesting using the name Archeria for this taxon, though he provided no evidence that he made a formal appeal to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature for this (and presumably did not do so).

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