Elpistostege
| Elpistostege watsoni Temporal range: Late Devonian | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Tetrapodomorpha |
| Clade: | Stegocephalia |
| Family: | †Elpistostegidae |
| Genus: | †Elpistostege |
| Species: | † E. watsoni |
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| Elpistostege 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. Recently, the entire fossil of the fish was found in the same formation. It is proposed by the palaeontologist Richard Cloutier at Université du Québec à Rimouski that this species may dethrone Tiktaalik in the position of the nearest fish from the tetrapods.
External links
- Elpistostege at Palaeos
- History of Elpistostege
- Recent Discovery of an entire well-preserved fossil of Elpistostege watsoni
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