Elginerpetontidae
Appearance
Elginerpetontidae Temporal range:
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Life restoration of Elginerpeton pancheni | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Clade: | Tetrapodomorpha |
Clade: | Stegocephali |
Family: | †Elginerpetontidae Ahlberg, 1995 |
Subgroups | |
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 Webererpeton.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ Ahlberg, P. E. (1995). "Elginerpeton pancheni and the earliest tetrapod clade". Nature. 373 (6513): 420–425. Bibcode:1995Natur.373..420A. doi:10.1038/373420a0. S2CID 4344655.
- ^ 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. Bibcode:2014PalJ...48.1082C. doi:10.1134/S0031030114100037. S2CID 129908361.