Elpistostege

Taxobox
name = "Elpistostege"
fossil_range = Late Devonian


image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Elpistostege watsoni"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Osteichthyes
ordo = Elpistostegalia
subclassis = Sarcopterygii
superordo = Osteolepidida
familia = Elpistostegidae
genus = "Elpistostege"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = * "E. watsoni" Westoll, 1938

"Elpistostege" is an extinct genus of tetrapod-like fish that lived in the Late Devonian period (Late Givetian to Early Frasnian). Fossils of skull and a part of the backbone have been found at Escuminac Formation in Quebec, Canada.

External links

* [http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Units/140Sarcopterygii/140.920.html#Elpistostege Elpistostege at Palaeos]
* [http://www.devoniantimes.org/Order/re-elipistostege.html History of Elpistostege]