Urocordylus (from Greek: οὐρά oura, 'tail' and Greek: κορδῡ́λη kordū́lē, 'club') is an extinct genus of nectridean tetrapodomorphs. It is the type genus of the family Urocordylidae. Fossils have been found from Ireland that date back to the Westphalian stage of the late Carboniferous.[2] It had total length of about 19.5 in (500 mm), but the skull was only about 1.3 in (33 mm) long.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Clade: | Tetrapodomorpha |
| Order: | †Nectridea |
| Family: | †Urocordylidae |
| Subfamily: | †Urocordylinae |
| Genus: | †Urocordylus Wright & Huxley, 1866 |
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| †Urocordylus wandesfordii Huxley, 1867
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References
edit- ^ Urocordylus Huxley, 1867 in GBIF Secretariat (2017). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/4816372 on 2019-02-27.
- ^ Carrol, R. L. (2001). The origin and early radiation of terrestrial vertebrates. Journal of Paleontology 75(6):1202-1213.
- ^ Huxley, Thomas H.; Wright, E. Perceval (1871). "On a Collection of Fossil Vertebrata, from the Jarrow Colliery, County of Kilkenny, Ireland". The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. 24: 351–370. ISSN 0790-8113. JSTOR 30079292.
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