Devonian tetrapods include fishapods and amphibians that lived during the
Devonian Period
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, w ...
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Elpistostegalia
Ichthyostegalia
Timeline of genera
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from: -419.2 till: -410.8 color:earlydevonian text:Lochkovian
The Lochkovian is one of three faunal stages in the Early Devonian Epoch. It lasted from 419.2 ± 3.2 million years ago to 410.8 ± 2.8 million years ago. It marked the beginning of the Devonian Period, and was followed by the Pragian Stage. It is ...
from: -410.8 till: -407.6 color:earlydevonian text: Pragian
from: -407.6 till: -393.3 color:earlydevonian text:Emsian
The Emsian is one of three faunal stages in the Early Devonian Epoch. It lasted from 407.6 ± 2.6 million years ago to 393.3 ± 1.2 million years ago. It was preceded by the Pragian Stage and followed by the Eifelian Stage. It is named after the ...
from: -393.3 till: -387.7 color:middledevonian text:Eifelian
The Eifelian is the first of two faunal stages in the Middle Devonian Epoch. It lasted from 393.3 ± 1.2 million years ago to 387.7 ± 0.8 million years ago. It was preceded by the Emsian Stage and followed by the Givetian Stage.
North American ...
from: -387.7 till: -382.7 color:middledevonian text:Givetian
The Givetian is one of two faunal stages in the Middle Devonian Period. It lasted from million years ago to million years ago. It was preceded by the Eifelian Stage and followed by the Frasnian
The Frasnian is one of two faunal stages in the ...
from: -382.7 till: -372.2 color:latedevonian text:Frasnian
The Frasnian is one of two faunal stages in the Late Devonian Period. It lasted from million years ago to million years ago. It was preceded by the Givetian Stage and followed by the Famennian Stage.
Major reef-building was under way during th ...
from: -372.2 till: -358.9 color:latedevonian text:Famennian
The Famennian is the latter of two faunal stages in the Late Devonian Epoch. The most recent estimate for its duration estimates that it lasted from around 371.1 million years ago to 359.3 million years ago. An earlier 2012 estimate, still used b ...
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from: -419.2 till: -358.9 color:devonian text: Devonian
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color:latedevonian bar:NAM1 at:-380 mark:(line,black) text:Elpistostege
''Elpistostege'' is an extinct genus of finned tetrapodomorphs that lived during the late Givetian to early Frasnian ages of the Late Devonian epoch. Its only known species, ''E. watsoni'', was first described in 1938 by the British palaeontolog ...
color:latedevonian bar:NAM2 at:-380 mark:(line,black) text: Howittichthys
color:latedevonian bar:NAM3 at:-380 mark:(line,black) text: Livoniana
color:latedevonian bar:NAM4 at:-380 mark:(line,black) text:Panderichthys
''Panderichthys'' is a genus of extinction, extinct Sarcopterygii, sarcopterygian (lobe-finned fish) from the late Devonian period, about 380 Myr, Mya. ''Panderichthys'', which was recovered from Frasnian (early Late Devonian) deposits in Latvia, ...
color:latedevonian bar:NAM5 at:-380 mark:(line,black) text: Parapanderichthys
color:latedevonian bar:NAM6 at:-375 mark:(line,black) text:Tiktaalik
''Tiktaalik'' (; Inuktitut ) is a monospecific genus of extinct sarcopterygian (lobe-finned fish) from the Late Devonian Period, about 375 Mya (million years ago), having many features akin to those of tetrapods (four-legged animals). It may ha ...
color:latedevonian bar:NAM7 at:-373 mark:(line,black) text:Elginerpeton
''Elginerpeton'' is a genus of stegocephalian (stem-tetrapod), the fossils of which were recovered from Scat Craig, Morayshire in the UK, from rocks dating to the late Devonian Period (Early Famennian stage, 368 million years ago). The only know ...
color:latedevonian bar:NAM8 at:-373 mark:(line,black) text:Obruchevichthys
''Obruchevichthys'' is an extinct genus of tetrapod from Latvia during the Late Devonian. When the jawbone, the only known fossil of this creature, was uncovered in Latvia, it was mistaken as a lobe-fin fish. However, when it was analyzed, it ...
color:latedevonian bar:NAM9 at:-370 mark:(line,black) text:Metaxygnathus
''Metaxygnathus'' is an extinct genus of ichthyostegalian found in Late Devonian deposits of New South Wales, Australia .
It is known only from a lower jawbone. Previously thought to be a lobe-finned fish, it has now been reassigned to the ...
color:latedevonian bar:NAM10 at:-370 mark:(line,black) text:Jakubsonia
''Jakubsonia'' is an extinct genus of early tetrapod from the Late Devonian of Russia. 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 consid ...
color:latedevonian bar:NAM11 at:-365 mark:(line,black) text:Acanthostega
''Acanthostega'' (meaning "spiny roof") is an extinct genus of stem-tetrapod, among the first vertebrate animals to have recognizable limbs. It appeared in the late Devonian period (Famennian age) about 365 million years ago, and was anatomic ...
color:latedevonian bar:NAM12 at:-365 mark:(line,black) text: Ichthyostega
color:latedevonian bar:NAM13 at:-365 mark:(line,black) text: Tulerpeton
color:latedevonian bar:NAM14 at:-365 mark:(line,black) text:Ymeria
''Ymeria'' is an extinct genus of early stem tetrapod from the Devonian of Greenland. Of the two other genera of stem tetrapods from Greenland, ''Acanthostega'' and ''Ichthyostega'', ''Ymeria'' is most closely related to ''Ichthyostega'', thoug ...
color:latedevonian bar:NAM15 at:-361 mark:(line,black) text:Hynerpeton
''Hynerpeton'' ( ) is an extinct genus of early four-limbed vertebrate that lived in the rivers and ponds of Pennsylvania during the Late Devonian period, around 365 to 363 million years ago. The only known species of ''Hynerpeton'' is ''H. basse ...
color:latedevonian bar:NAM16 at:-361 mark:(line,black) text:Densignathus
''Densignathus'' is an extinct genus of early stem-tetrapod from the Late Devonian of Pennsylvania in the United States. A lower jaw has been found from the Red Hill fossil site, which is known for a diversity of lobe-finned fishes and other ear ...
color:latedevonian bar:NAM17 at:-360 mark:(line,black) text: Ventastega
color:latedevonian bar:NAM18 at:-360 mark:(line,black) text: Sinostega
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from: -419.2 till: -410.8 color:earlydevonian text:Lochkovian
The Lochkovian is one of three faunal stages in the Early Devonian Epoch. It lasted from 419.2 ± 3.2 million years ago to 410.8 ± 2.8 million years ago. It marked the beginning of the Devonian Period, and was followed by the Pragian Stage. It is ...
from: -410.8 till: -407.6 color:earlydevonian text: Pragian
from: -407.6 till: -393.3 color:earlydevonian text:Emsian
The Emsian is one of three faunal stages in the Early Devonian Epoch. It lasted from 407.6 ± 2.6 million years ago to 393.3 ± 1.2 million years ago. It was preceded by the Pragian Stage and followed by the Eifelian Stage. It is named after the ...
from: -393.3 till: -387.7 color:middledevonian text:Eifelian
The Eifelian is the first of two faunal stages in the Middle Devonian Epoch. It lasted from 393.3 ± 1.2 million years ago to 387.7 ± 0.8 million years ago. It was preceded by the Emsian Stage and followed by the Givetian Stage.
North American ...
from: -387.7 till: -382.7 color:middledevonian text:Givetian
The Givetian is one of two faunal stages in the Middle Devonian Period. It lasted from million years ago to million years ago. It was preceded by the Eifelian Stage and followed by the Frasnian
The Frasnian is one of two faunal stages in the ...
from: -382.7 till: -372.2 color:latedevonian text:Frasnian
The Frasnian is one of two faunal stages in the Late Devonian Period. It lasted from million years ago to million years ago. It was preceded by the Givetian Stage and followed by the Famennian Stage.
Major reef-building was under way during th ...
from: -372.2 till: -358.9 color:latedevonian text:Famennian
The Famennian is the latter of two faunal stages in the Late Devonian Epoch. The most recent estimate for its duration estimates that it lasted from around 371.1 million years ago to 359.3 million years ago. An earlier 2012 estimate, still used b ...
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See also
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Carboniferous tetrapods
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Permian tetrapods Permian tetrapods were amphibians and reptiles that lived during the Permian Period.
During this time, amphibians remained common, including various Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli. Synapsids became the dominant type of animal, represented by the ...
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