Species: hovaneci MANN, HENRICI, SUES & PIERCE, 2023
Etymology: In honor of George Hovanec who generously donated funds to facilitate the CT scanning of Linton Fossils.

Holotype: CM 93778

Locality: Coal mine operated originally by the Ohio Diamond Coal Company at Linton in Saline Townshipe, Jefferson County, Ohio.

Horizon: Local cannel coal immediately below the Upper Freeport Coal, Allegheny Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Moscovian Epoch, Middle Pennsylvian Sub-Period, Late Carboniferous Period.

Material: A natural mould of cranial remains comprising a partial right mandibular ramus, a right pterygoid, the posterior part of a right maxilla, and the right jugal

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Reconstruction of the skull (CM 93378) after MANN, HENRICI, SUES & PIERCE, 2023

CM 93778 after MANN, HENRICI, SUES & PIERCE, 2023.

Referred material:

CM 93779: A natural mold of a partial skull comparising a right maxilla, a right pterygoid, a left parietal, a left frontal, a parabasiphenoid, and postcranial bones.

CM 93779 after MANN, HENRICI, SUES & PIERCE, 2023.

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