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Extinct genus of amphibians

Bruktererpeton
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Gephyrostegida
Family: Gephyrostegidae
Genus: Bruktererpeton
Boy & Bandel, 1973
Type species
Bruktererpeton fiebigi
Boy & Bandel, 1973

Bruktererpeton is an extinct genus of gephyrostegid reptiliomorph known from the Late Carboniferous of the Rhein-Ruhr-District, western Germany. It was first described and named by Jürgen A. Boy and Klaus Bandel in 1973 and the type species is Bruktererpeton fiebigi. Recent phylogenetic analyses confirmed that Bruktererpeton is a sister taxon of the better known genus Gephyrostegus.

References

  1. Jürgen A. Boy and Klaus Bandel (1973). "Bruktererpeton fiebigi n. gen. n. sp. (Amphibia: Gephyrostegida). Der erste Tetrapode aus dem Rheinisch-Westfälischen Karbon (Namur B; W.-Deutschland)". Palaeontographica Abteilung A. A145 (1–3): 39–77.
  2. Marcello Ruta, Michael I. Coates and Donald L. J. Quicke (2003). "Early tetrapod relationships revisited" (PDF). Biological Reviews. 78 (2): 251–345. doi:10.1017/S1464793102006103. PMID 12803423. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-05-22. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
Tetrapodomorpha (Pan-Tetrapoda)
Gnathostomata
Tetrapodomorpha
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Tetrapodomorpha
Tetrapodomorpha
Rhizodontida
Canowindridae
Megalichthyidae
Eotetrapodiformes
Tristichopteridae
Elpistostegalia
Stegocephali (Tetrapoda sensu lato)
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Rhizodus sp.

Osteolepis macrolepidotus Eusthenopteron foordi

Tiktaalik rosae
Stegocephali (Tetrapoda sensu lato)
Devonian taxa
Elginerpetontidae
Post-Devonian taxa
Aistopoda
Oestocephalidae
Phlegethontioidea
Phlegethontiidae
Whatcheeriidae
Colosteidae
Adelospondyli
Adelogyrinidae
"Nectridea"
Baphetoidea
Baphetidae
Embolomeri
Gephyrostegidae
Other "anthracosaurs"
Crown group
Tetrapoda
Temnospondyli (Batrachomorpha
Reptiliomorpha (Pan-Amniota)
Phlegethontia longissima

Acanthostega gunnari Crassigyrinus scoticus Eucritta melanolimnetes Archeria crassidisca

Bruktererpeton fiebigi
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Taxon identifiers
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