Coloraderpeton

Extinct genus of tetrapodomorphs

Coloraderpeton
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous, 302 Ma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Clade: Tetrapodomorpha
Order: Aistopoda
Family: Oestocephalidae
Genus: Coloraderpeton
Vaughn, 1969
Species:
C. brilli
Binomial name
Coloraderpeton brilli
Vaughn, 1969

Coloraderpeton is an extinct tetrapodomorph in the genus aïstopod within the family Oestocephalidae.[1][2] Coloraderpeton is known from the Carboniferous Sangre de Cristo Formation of Colorado, and was initially known from vertebrae, ribs, and scales recovered from a UCLA field expedition in 1966. Peter Paul Vaughn described these remains in 1969.[1] A skull was later reported in an unpublished 1983 thesis and formally described by Jason S. Anderson in 2003.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Vaughn, Peter Paul (26 June 1969). "Upper Pennsylvanian vertebrates from the Sangre de Cristo Formation of Central Colorado" (PDF). Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science. 164: 1–28. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 June 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  2. ^ a b Anderson, J. S. (2003). "Cranial anatomy of Coloraderpeton brilli, postcranial anatomy of Oestocephalus amphiuminus, and reconsideration of Ophiderpetontidae (Tetrapoda: Lepospondyli: Aistopoda)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 23 (3): 532–543. doi:10.1671/1752.
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