Gephyrostegidae

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Gephyrostegidae
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous
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Life restoration of Gephyrostegus bohemicus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Gephyrostegida
Family: Gephyrostegidae
Jaeckel, 1909

Gephyrostegidae is an extinct family of stegocephalian tetrapodomorphs from the Late Carboniferous including the genera Gephyrostegus , Bruktererpeton , and Eusauropleura . Gephyrostegus is from the Czech Republic, Brukterepeton is from Germany, and Eusauropleura is from the eastern United States. [1]

References

  1. Marcello Ruta, Michael I. Coates and Donald L. J. Quicke (2003). "Early tetrapod relationships revisited" (PDF). Biological Reviews. 78 (2): 251–345. doi:10.1017/S1464793102006103. PMID   12803423. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-05-22. Retrieved 2012-03-08.