Colosteidae
| Colosteidae Temporal range: Middle Carboniferous | |
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| Life restoration of Greererpeton burkemorani | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Family: | †Colosteidae Cope, 1875 |
| Genera | |
The Colosteidae are a family of labyrinthodont amphibians 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.
- ↑ 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.
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