Coloraderpeton

Coloraderpeton; Temporal range: Late Carboniferous, 302 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Life restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	†Aistopoda
Family:	†Oestocephalidae
Genus:	†Coloraderpeton; Vaughn, 1969
Species:	†C. brilli
Binomial name
	†Coloraderpeton brilli; Vaughn, 1969

Coloraderpeton is an extinct genus of aïstopod tetrapodomorphs 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. described these remains in 1969.^[1] A skull was later reported in an unpublished 1983 thesis and formally described by in 2003.^[2]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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[:0-1] 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.

[AJS03-2] 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.

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