Coloraderpeton

Coloraderpeton
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous,
Life restoration
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Clade: Tetrapodomorpha
Order: Aistopoda
Family: Oestocephalidae
Genus: Coloraderpeton
Vaughn, 1969
Species:
C. brilli
Binomial name
Coloraderpeton brilli
Vaughn, 1969

Coloraderpeton is an extinct genus of aïstopod tetrapodomorphs within the family Oestocephalidae. Coloraderpeton is known from the Carboniferous Sangre de Cristo Formation of Colorado, and was initially known from vertebrae, ribs, and scales recovered from a UCLA field expedition in 1966. Peter Paul Vaughn described these remains in 1969. A skull was later reported in an unpublished 1983 thesis and formally described by Jason S. Anderson in 2003.

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