| Coloraderpeton Temporal range:
Late Carboniferous,
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Scientific classification
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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
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| †Coloraderpeton brilli Vaughn, 1969
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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 [1] A skull was later reported in an unpublished 1983 thesis and formally described by Jason S. Anderson in 2003.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
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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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