Ophiderpeton
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Ophiderpeton (from Template:Langx Script error: No such module "lang"., 'snake' and Template:Langx Script error: No such module "lang". 'creeper')[1] is an extinct genus of aistopod tetrapodomorphs from the early Carboniferous to the early Permian. Remains of this genus are widespread and were found in Ohio, United States, Ireland, and the Czech Republic (Central Europe).
Like other aistopods, Ophiderpeton was snake-like, without any trace of limbs. Its body was about Script error: No such module "convert". long, with 230 vertebrae. The skull measured Script error: No such module "convert"., and large, forward-facing eyes, suggesting a hunting lifestyle. It probably lived in burrows, feeding on insects, worms, millipedes, and snails.[2][3]
Many species are classified in the genus, and similar animals, Phlegethontia and Sillerpeton, are known. An earlier genus, Lethiscus, is known from the Carboniferous and Early Permian.
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- Aistopoda
- Mississippian sarcopterygians
- Pennsylvanian sarcopterygians
- Carboniferous sarcopterygians of North America
- Carboniferous sarcopterygians of Europe
- Cisuralian sarcopterygians
- Permian sarcopterygians of North America
- Permian sarcopterygians of Europe
- Fossil taxa described in 1866
- Taxa named by Thomas Henry Huxley