Andersonerpeton
| Andersonerpeton Temporal range: Late Carboniferous, | |
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| The holotype jaw in multiple views | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Clade: | Tetrapodomorpha |
| Order: | †Aistopoda |
| Genus: | †Andersonerpeton Pardo and Mann, 2018 |
| Type species | |
| †A. longidentatum Dawson, 1876 | |
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Andersonerpeton is an extinct genus of aïstopod from the Bashkirian (early Pennsylvanian) of Nova Scotia, Canada. It is known from a single jaw, which shares an unusual combination of features from both other aistopods and from stem-tetrapod tetrapodomorph fish. As a result, Andersonerpeton is significant for supporting a new classification scheme which states that aistopods evolved much earlier than previously expected. The genus contains a single species, A. longidentatum, which was previously believed to have been a species of the microsaur Hylerpeton.
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