Tetrapoda

Tetrapoda (a Graeco τετράπους 'quadrupes'), nomen a Goodrich anno 1930 factum, est animalium superclassis, quae prima vertebrata quattuor membrorum et eorum proles, inter quos amphibia, reptilia, mammalia, aves, et pisces, ambo vivos et exstinctos, comprehendit. Tetrapoda se ex Sarcopterygiis abhinc annorum 390 milliones, Aevo Devoniano evolverunt.^[2][3] Certi tetrapodorum maiores aquatici, et ratio qua colonizatio terrestris facta est, in dubio manent, loci investigationis et disceptionis inter palaeontologos sunt.

Repraesentationes classium quinque tetrapodorum exstantium (modo horologico a laeva superiori): a rana (amphibia), hoatzin (avis), scincida (reptile), mus (mammal), et amphiprionina (piscis)

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Animalia — Chordata

Superclassis : Tetrapoda 
Goodrich, 1930

   

Palaeontologia

390–0 m.a.: Devonium medium > Recens^[1]

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Subdivisiones: Subgreges

* Class Amphibia

• Series Amniota
  • Clade Sauropsida
    • Class Reptilia
    • Class Aves
  • Clade Synapsida
    • Class Mammalia

Notae

1. Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki, Piotr Szrek, Katarzyna Narkiewicz, Marek Narkiewicz, Per E. Ahlberg (2010). "Tetrapod trackways from the early Middle Devonian period of Poland". Nature 463 (7277): 43–8 
2. Clack 2012, pp. 125–7
3. Narkiewicz 2015.

Bibliographia

• Benton, Michael (5 Februarii 2009). Vertebrate Palaeontology (3a ed.). John Wiley & Sons. p. 1. ISBN 9781405144490 
• Clack, J. A. (2012). Gaining ground: the origin and evolution of tetrapods (2a ed.). Bloomington Indianae: Indiana University Press 
• Laurin, Michel (2010). How Vertebrates Left the Water. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520266476 
• McGhee, George R., Jr. (2013). When the Invasion of Land Failed: The Legacy of the Devonian Extinctions. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231160575 
• Steyer, Sebastien (2012). Earth Before the Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press. p. 59. ISBN 0253223806 

Nexus externi

Vide "Tetrapoda" apud Vicispecies.

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Tetrapoda spectant.

Situs scientifici:  • ITIS • NCBI • Encyclopedia of Life • WoRMS: Marine Species • Fossilworks

• Tetrapoda apud Systema Natura
• Tetrapoda apud Animaldiversityweb
• The Gill Arches: Meckel's Cartilage