Elginerpetontidae

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Elginerpetontidae
Temporal range: Frasnian
Elginerpeton BW.jpg
Life restoration of Elginerpeton pancheni
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Stegocephalia
Family: Elginerpetontidae
Ahlberg, 1995

Elginerpetontidae is an extinct family of basal stegocephalian tetrapodomorphs which lived in Europe during the Frasnian stage of the Late Devonian epoch. It contains the genera Elginerpeton, Obruchevichthys and .[1][2]

References[]

  1. ^ Ahlberg, P. E. (1995). "Elginerpeton pancheni and the earliest tetrapod clade". Nature. 373 (6513): 420–425. doi:10.1038/373420a0.
  2. ^ Clément, G.; Lebedev, O. (2014). "Revision of the early tetrapod Obruchevichthys Vorobyeva, 1977 from the Frasnian (Upper Devonian) of the North-western East European Platform". Paleontological Journal. 48 (10): 1082–1091. doi:10.1134/S0031030114100037.


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