''Jakubsonia'' is an extinct genus of early

tetrapod Tetrapods (; ) are four-limbed vertebrate animals constituting the superclass Tetrapoda (). It includes extant and extinct amphibians, sauropsids ( reptiles, including dinosaurs and therefore birds) and synapsids (pelycosaurs, extinct theraps ...

from the

Late Devonian The Devonian ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Carboniferous, Mya. It is named after Devon, England, wher ...

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. The

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...

, ''Jakubsonia livnensis'', was described and named in 2004.

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Prehistoric tetrapod genera Devonian tetrapods Ichthyostegalia Prehistoric tetrapods of Asia Basal tetrapods of Europe Fossil taxa described in 2004 Extinct animals of Russia {{Devonian-animal-stub