Coloraderpeton

Coloraderpeton Temporal range: Late Carboniferous, 302 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Life restoration
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Sarcopterygii
Clade:	Tetrapodomorpha
Order:	†Aistopoda
Family:	†Oestocephalidae
Genus:	†Coloraderpeton Vaughn, 1969
Species:	†C. brilli
Binomial name
†Coloraderpeton brilli Vaughn, 1969

Coloraderpeton is an extinct tetrapodomorph in the genus aïstopod within the family Oestocephalidae.^[1][2] Coloraderpeton is known from the Carboniferous Sangre de Cristo Formation of Colorado, and was initially known from vertebrae, ribs, and scales recovered from a UCLA field expedition in 1966. Peter Paul Vaughn described these remains in 1969.^[1] A skull was later reported in an unpublished 1983 thesis and formally described by Jason S. Anderson in 2003.^[2]

References

1. Vaughn, Peter Paul (26 June 1969). "Upper Pennsylvanian vertebrates from the Sangre de Cristo Formation of Central Colorado" (PDF). Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science. 164: 1–28. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 June 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
2. Anderson, J. S. (2003). "Cranial anatomy of Coloraderpeton brilli, postcranial anatomy of Oestocephalus amphiuminus, and reconsideration of Ophiderpetontidae (Tetrapoda: Lepospondyli: Aistopoda)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 23 (3): 532–543. doi:10.1671/1752.