Colosteidae
| Colosteidae Temporal range: Middle Carboniferous | |
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| Life restoration of Greererpeton burkemorani | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Tetrapodomorpha |
| Clade: | Stegocephalia |
| Family: | †Colosteidae Cope, 1875 |
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The Colosteidae are a family of tetrapod-like vertebrates that lived in the Carboniferous period.[1]
Relationships
The analysis below was conducted by Swartz in 2012, showing the relationship of colosteids with other stem-tetrapods.[2]
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References
- ↑ John R. Bolt and R. Eric Lombard (2010). "Deltaherpeton hiemstrae, a New Colosteid Tetrapod from the Mississippian of Iowa". Journal of Paleontology 84 (6): 1135–1151. doi:10.1666/10-020.1.
- ↑ Swartz, B. (2012). "A marine stem-tetrapod from the Devonian of Western North America". PLoS ONE 7 (3): e33683. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033683. PMC 3308997. PMID 22448265.
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