Tulerpeton

Tulerpeton
Temporal range: Famennian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Clade: Tetrapodomorpha
Clade: Elpistostegalia
Clade: Stegocephali
Family: Tulerpetontidae
Lebedev & Coates, 1995
Genus: Tulerpeton
Lebedev, 1984
Type species
Tulerpeton curtum
Lebedev, 1984

Tulerpeton is an extinct genus of Devonian four-limbed vertebrate, known from a fossil that was found in the Tula Region of Russia at a site named Andreyevka. This genus and the closely related Acanthostega and Ichthyostega represent the earliest tetrapods.