''Coloraderpeton'' is an extinct

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of aïstopod tetrapodomorphs within the

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Oestocephalidae Oestocephalidae is an extinct family of Late Carboniferous aistopod stegocephalians. Fossils have been found from Ohio, Illinois, and Colorado in the United States; England; and the Czech Republic. It includes the genera '' Coloraderpeton ...

. ''Coloraderpeton'' is known from the Carboniferous Sangre de Cristo Formation of

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, and was initially known from vertebrae, ribs, and scales recovered from a

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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 A skull was later reported in an unpublished 1983 thesis and formally described by

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in 2003.

References

Aistopods Carboniferous amphibians Carboniferous amphibians of North America Fossil taxa described in 1969 {{paleo-amphibian-stub