Colosteidae
Extinct family of tetrapodomorphs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Colosteidae is a family of stegocephalians (stem-group tetrapods) that lived in the Carboniferous period.[1] They possessed a variety of characteristics from different tetrapod or stem-tetrapod groups, which made them historically difficult to classify. They are now considered to be part of a lineage intermediate between the earliest Devonian terrestrial vertebrates (such as Ichthyostega), and the different groups ancestral to all modern tetrapods, such as temnospondyls (probably ancestral to modern amphibians) and reptiliomorphs (ancestral to amniotes such as mammals, reptiles, and birds).
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Colosteidae | |
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Life restoration and size comparation of three members of Colosteidae | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Clade: | Tetrapodomorpha |
Clade: | Stegocephali |
Family: | †Colosteidae Cope, 1875 |
Type genus | |
†Colosteus Cope, 1871 | |
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