Crinodon

{{Short description|Extinct genus of tetrapods}}

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| fossil_range = Carboniferous (Westphalian) {{fossilrange|313|304}}

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| taxon = Crinodon

| authority = Carroll & Gaskill, 1978

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = Crinodon limnophyes Steen, 1938

| synonyms = Ricnodon limnophyes Steen, 1938

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Crinodon is an extinct genus of microsaur within the family Tuditanidae.{{Cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=37283|title=Fossilworks: Crinodon|website=fossilworks.org|access-date=2019-05-22}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mjcyaQw78X4C&dq=Crinodon&pg=PA24|title=The Order Microsauria|last1=Carroll|first1=Robert Lynn|last2=Gaskill|first2=Pamela|date=1978|publisher=American Philosophical Society|isbn=9780871691262|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ruNZCfmQOsIC&dq=Crinodon&pg=PA282|title=Gaining Ground: The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods|last=Clack|first=Jennifer A.|date=2002|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=9780253340542|language=en}} The type and only species C. limnophyes was found in Carboniferous deposits of Nyrany (Czech Republic) and described by M. C. Steen in 1938 as Ricnodon limnophyes.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 It was assigned to the new genus Crinodon by R. L. Carroll and P. Gaskill in 1978.R. L. Carroll and P. Gaskill. 1978. The Order Microsauria. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 126:1-211