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Extinct genus of tetrapodomorphs

Coloraderpeton
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous, 302 Ma PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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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. 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. A skull was later reported in an unpublished 1983 thesis and formally described by Jason S. Anderson in 2003.

References

  1. ^ 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. ^ 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.
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

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Coloraderpeton


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