Tournaisian life

gap in the tetrapod fossil record

Barameda (Indigenous Australian language: "fish trap") is a genus of rhizodont lobe-finned fishes which lived during the Tournaisian stage near the start of the Carboniferous period in Australia; fossils of the genus have been reported from the Snowy Plains Formation. The largest member of this genus, Barameda decipiens, reached an estimated length of around , while the smallest species, B. mitchelli is estimated to have had a length of about .