Pederpes
Sign in to savePederpes ("Peter's Foot") is an extinct genus of early Carboniferous stegocephalian, dating from 348 to 347.6 Ma in the Tournaisian age (lower Mississippian). Pederpes contains one species, P. finneyae, 1 m long.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 189 inbound references to Pederpes, and connects out to Amphibia, Tetrapoda and Sarcopterygii.
It is catalogued under topics including Carboniferous tetrapods, Carboniferous tetrapods of Europe and Fossil taxa described in 2002.
Vinony links it to 13 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Whatcheeriidae
- Image
- Pederpes22small.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- Commons category
- Pederpes
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Pederpes
- start time
- 348000000-
- end time
- 347600000-
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~3 min read
Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Discovery and classification
- Anatomy and lifestyle
- References
- External links
Pederpes ("Peter's Foot") is an extinct genus of early Carboniferous stegocephalian, dating from 348 to 347.6 Ma in the Tournaisian age (lower Mississippian). Pederpes contains one species, P. finneyae, 1 m long.
This most basal Carboniferous stegocephalian had a large, somewhat triangular head, similar to that of later American sister-genus Whatcheeria, from which it is distinguished by various skeletal features, such as a spike-like latissimus dorsi (an arm muscle) attachment on the humerus and several minor skull features. The feet had characteristics that distinguished it from the paddle-like feet of the Devonian Ichthyostegalia and resembled the feet of later, more terrestrially adapted Carboniferous forms. Pederpes is the earliest-known tetrapod to show the beginnings of terrestrial locomotion and despite the probable presence of a sixth digit on the forelimbs it was at least functionally pentadactyl.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pederpes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.