Oestocephalidae

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Oestocephalidae is an extinct family of Late Carboniferous a stopod lepospondyls. Fossils have been found from Ohio, Illinois, and Colorado in the United States; England; and the Czech Republic. It includes the genera Coloraderpeton and Oestocephalus. Oestocephalids have robust skulls and narrow, rounded snouts. They possess heavily ossified gastralia and dorsal osteoderms. Like other a stopods, oestocephalids were elongate, having approximately 110 vertebrae. Oestocephalidae was named in 2003, with the type species being Oestocephalus amphiuminus.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 5511921246
• ISBN13: 9785511921242
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Book on Demand Ltd.
• Length: 90 Pages
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