Tuditanus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of tetrapods}}

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| fossil_range = Late Carboniferous

| image = Tuditanus1DB.jpg

| image_upright = 1.1

| taxon = Tuditanus

| authority = Cope, 1871

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Tuditanus is an extinct genus of tuditanid microsaur from the Carboniferous, ~ 306 Ma ago.{{cite journal |last1=Carroll |first1=R. L. |last2=Gaskill |first2=P. |year=1978 |title=The Order Microsauria |journal=Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society |volume=126 |pages=1–211 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mjcyaQw78X4C&q=the+order+microsauria|isbn=9780871691262 }} It was of small size, reaching a length of about 24 cm.{{cite journal |last1=Carroll |first1=R. L. |last2=Baird |first2=D. |year=1968 |title=The Carboniferous amphibian Tuditanus [Eosauravus] and the distinction between microsaurs and reptiles [brackets in the original]|journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=2337 |pages=1–50 |hdl=2246/2547 |url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/2547 }}

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