| Tinirau clackae Temporal range: Middle Devonian,
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| Holotype fossil and interpretive drawing of Tinirau clackae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Clade: | Tetrapodomorpha |
| Clade: | Eotetrapodiformes |
| Genus: | †Tinirau Swartz, 2012 |
| Species: | †T. clackae
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| Binomial name | |
| †Tinirau clackae Swartz, 2012
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Bruehnopteron murphyi Schultze & Reed (2012)?[1] | |
Tinirau is an extinct genus of sarcopterygian fish from the Middle Devonian of Nevada. Although it spent its entire life in the ocean, Tinirau is a stem tetrapod close to the ancestry of land-living vertebrates in the crown group Tetrapoda. Relative to more well-known stem tetrapods, Tinirau is more closely related to Tetrapoda than is Eusthenopteron, but farther from Tetrapoda than is Panderichthys. The type and only species of Tinirau is T. clackae, named in 2012.[2]
- ^ Matthew Parfitt; Zerina Johanson; Sam Giles; Matt Friedman (2014). "A large, anatomically primitive tristichopterid (Sarcopterygii: Tetrapodomorpha) from the Late Devonian (Frasnian) Alves Beds, Upper Old Red Sandstone, Moray, Scotland". Scottish Journal of Geology. 50 (1): 79–85. doi:10.1144/sjg2013-013. S2CID 129313060.
- ^ Swartz, B. (2012). "A marine stem-tetrapod from the Devonian of Western North America". PLOS ONE. 7 (3): e33683. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033683. PMC 3308997. PMID 22448265.