- Colosteidae
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Colosteidae
Temporal range: Middle Carboniferous
Life restoration of Greererpeton burkemorani Scientific classification 
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Superclass: Tetrapoda Family: †Colosteidae
Cope, 1875Genera The Colosteidae are a family of amphibian tetrapods that lived in the Carboniferous period.[1] They appear to be a fairly primitive group, a sister group to the reptile-like amphibians and the other temnospondylans.[2]
References
- ^ John R. Bolt and R. Eric Lombard (2010). "Deltaherpeton hiemstrae, a New Colosteid Tetrapod from the Mississippian of Iowa". Journal of Paleontology 84 (6): 1135–1151. doi:10.1666/10-020.1. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1666/10-020.1.
- ^ Sigurdsen T., Green D.M. (2011). "The origin of modern amphibians: a re-evaluation". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162 (2): 457–469. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00683.x.
Categories:- Tetrapods
- Prehistoric amphibian stubs
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