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Devonian tetrapod from western Europe

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  • Gaël Clément

    (UMR 5143, CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle)

  • Per E. Ahlberg

    (Uppsala University)

  • Alain Blieck

    (UMR 8014, CNRS, USTL Sciences de la Terre)

  • Henning Blom

    (University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge)

  • Jennifer A. Clack

    (University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge)

  • Edouard Poty

    (Université de Liège, Sart-Tilman)

  • Jacques Thorez

    (Université de Liège, Sart-Tilman)

  • Philippe Janvier

    (UMR 5143, CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
    The Natural History Museum)

Abstract

Several discoveries of Late Devonian tetrapods (limbed vertebrates) have been made during the past two decades1,2,3, but each has been confined to one locality. Here we describe a tetrapod jaw of about 365 million years (Myr) old from the Famennian of Belgium, which is the first from western continental Europe. The jaw closely resembles that of Ichthyostega, a Famennian tetrapod hitherto known only from Greenland. The environment of this fossil provides information about the conditions that prevailed just before the virtual disappearance of tetrapods from the fossil record for 20 Myr.

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  • Gaël Clément & Per E. Ahlberg & Alain Blieck & Henning Blom & Jennifer A. Clack & Edouard Poty & Jacques Thorez & Philippe Janvier, 2004. "Devonian tetrapod from western Europe," Nature, Nature, vol. 427(6973), pages 412-413, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:427:y:2004:i:6973:d:10.1038_427412a
    DOI: 10.1038/427412a
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