Palæos:		Unit 150: Tetrapoda
The Vertebrates		References

Tetrapod References

SARCOPTERYGII
|
Tetrapoda
|--Acanthostega 
`--+--Ichthyostega 
   `--+--Crassigyrinidae 
      `--+--Colosteidae 
         `--+--Baphetidae 
            `--Tetrapoda*
               |--TEMNOSPONDYLI
               `--+--LEPOSPONDYLI
                  `--REPTILOMORPHA

Ahlberg, PE (1995), Elginerpeton pancheni and the earliest tetrapod clade.  Nature, 373: 420-425.  Tetrapoda.  

Ahlberg, PE (1998), Postcranial stem tetrapod remains from the Devonian of Scat Craig, Morayshire, Scotland.  Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 122: 99-141.  Acanthostega, Ichthyostega, Tetrapoda.  

Ahlberg, PE & JA Clack (1998), Lower jaws, lower tetrapods -- a review based on the Devonian genus Acanthostega. Trans. Roy. Soc. (Edinburgh), Earth Sci., 89: 11-46. Acanthostega, Baphetes; Baphetidae, Ichthyostega, Loxomma, Megalocephalus, Tetrapoda. 

Ahlberg, PE & E Luksevics (2004) New light on the Devonian tetrapod Ventastega curonica.  10th Intl. Symp. Early Vert. Lower Vert., p.10 (abstr).   Tetrapoda.  

Ahlberg, PE, JA Clack & E Lukševičs (1996), Rapid braincase evolution between Panderichthyes and the earliest tetrapods. Nature 381: 61-64.  Tetrapoda. 

Ahlberg, PE, E Lukševics & E Mark-Kurik (2000), A near-tetrapod from the Baltic Middle Devonian. Palaeontology 43: 533-548.

Andrews, SM & TS Westoll (1970), The postcranial skeleton of Eusthenopteron foordi Whiteaves. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. 68: 207–329.  Acanthostega.

Beaumont, EH (1977), Cranial morphology of the Loxommatidae (Amphibia: Labyrinthodontia).  Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 280: 29-101. Baphetes, Baphetidae, Loxomma, Megalocephalus, Spathicephalus.

Beaumont, EH & TR Smithson (1998), The cranial morphology and relationships of the aberrant Carboniferous amphibian Spathicephalus mirus Watson.  Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 122: 187-209. Spathicephalus

Berman, DS (2000), Origin and early evolution of the amniote occiput. J. Paleontol. 74: 938-956. Acanthostega, Baphetes, Baphetidae.

Berner, RA & Z Kothavala (2001), GEOCARB III: a revised model of atmospheric CO₂ over Phanerozoic time.  Amer. J. Sci. 301: 182-204.  Tetrapoda.  

Berner, RA, DJ Beerling, R Dudley, JM Robinson & RAWildman, Jr (2003), Phanerozoic atmospheric oxygen.  Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 31: 105–34.  Tetrapoda. 

Blom, H (2005), Taxonomic revision of the Late Devonian tetrapod Ichthyostega from East Greenland.  Palaeontology 48: 111-134. Ichthyostega, Tetrapoda.  

Carroll, RL (1988), Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, WH Freeman & Co., 698 pp. Colosteidae

Carroll, RL, J Irwin & DM Green (2005), Thermal physiology and the origin of terrestriality in vertebrates.  Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 143: 345–358. Acanthostega, Ichthyostega.

Clack, JA (1989), Discovery of the earliest-known tetrapod stapes.  Nature 342: 425-427.  Tetrapoda.  

Clack, JA (1994), Earliest known tetrapod braincase and the evolution of the stapes and fenestra ovalis.  Nature 369: 392-394.   Acanthostega, Tetrapoda.  

Clack, JA (1997), Devonian tetrapod trackways and trackmakers; a review of the fossils and footprints.  Palaeogeog., Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 130: 227-250.  Tetrapoda, Tetrapoda.  

Clack, JA (1998), A new Early Carboniferous tetrapod with a mélange of crown-group characters.  Nature 394: 66-69. Baphetes.

Clack, JA (1998a), The neurocranium of Acanthostega gunnari Jarvik and the evolution of the otic region in tetrapods.  Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 122: 61-97.  Acanthostega, Ichthyostega, Tetrapoda.  

Clack, JA (2001), Eucritta melanolimnetes from the Early Carboniferous of Scotland, a stem tetrapod showing a mosaic of characteristics.  Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin.: Earth Sci. 92: 72-95. Spathicephalus.

Clack, JA (2002), Gaining Ground: the Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods.  Indiana Univ. Press, 369 pp. Acanthostega, Baphetes, Baphetidae, Ichthyostega, Loxomma, Megalocephalus, Spathicephalus, Tetrapoda, Tetrapoda.  

Clack, JA (2002a), The dermal skull roof of Acanthostega gunnari, an early tetrapod from the Late Devonian.  Trans. R. Soc. Edin., Earth Sci. 93: 17-33.  Acanthostega, Ichthyostega, Tetrapoda.

Clack, JA (2003), A revised reconstruction of the dermal skull roof of Acanthostega, an early tetrapod from the Late Devonian.  Trans. R. Soc. Edin., Earth Sci. 93: 163-165.  Acanthostega.

Clack, JA, PE Ahlberg, SM Finney, P Dominguez Alonso, J Robinson & RA Ketcham (2003), A uniquely specialized ear in a very early tetrapod.  Nature 425: 65-69.  Acanthostega, Ichthyostega, Tetrapoda.

Clement, G, PE Ahlberg, A Blieck, H Blom, JA Clack, E Poty, J Thorez, & P Janvier (2004), Devonian tetrapod from western Europe. Nature 427: 412-413. Ichthyostega.  

Coates, MI (1996), The Devonian tetrapod Acanthostega gunnari Jarvik: postcranial anatomy, basal tetrapod interrelationships and patterns of skeletal evolution.  Trans. R. Soc. Edin, Earth Sci. 87: 363-421.  Acanthostega, Ichthyostega, Tetrapoda, Tetrapoda.  

Coates, MI & JA Clack (1991), Fish-like gills and breathing in the earliest known tetrapod. Nature 352: 234-236.  Acanthostega, Tetrapoda.  

Coates, MI, JE Jeffery & M Ruta (2002), Fins to limbs: what the fossils say. Evol. & Devel. 4: 390-401.  Acanthostega, Ichthyostega, Tetrapoda, Tetrapoda.  

Coates, MI, NH Shubin & EB Daeschler (2004), Response to comment on "The early evolution of the tetrapod humerus." Science 305: 1715d.  Ichthyostega.  

Daeschler, EB (2000), Early tetrapod jaws from the Late Devonian of Pennsylvania, USA. J. Paleont. 74: 301-308.  Tetrapoda, Tetrapoda.

Daeschler, EB, NH Shubin, KS Thomson & WW Amaral (1994), A Devonian tetrapod from North America.  Science 265: 639-642.  Tetrapoda, Tetrapoda.

Dubuisson, J-Y, P Rachebouf, & P Janvier (2003), Du Silurien au Devonien: les sorties des eaux in P. Janvier & V. Dupres [eds.] (2003-2005), Evolution: De l'Origine de la Vie aux Origines de l'Homme.  WWW. Tetrapoda.  

Dudley, R (1998), Atmospheric oxygen, giant Paleozoic insects and the evolution of aerial locomotor performance.  J. Exper. Biol. 201, 1043–1050.  Tetrapoda.

Godfrey, SJ (1989) The postcranial skeletal anatomy of the Carboniferous tetrapod Greererpeton burkemorani Romer, 1969. Phil. Trans. R. Soc (Lond.), B323: 75-133. Colosteidae.

Janvier, P (1996), Early Vertebrates, Oxford, 393 pp.  Ichthyostega.  

Jarvik, E (1996), The Devonian tetrapod Ichthyostega.  Fossils & Strata 40: 1–213.  Tetrapoda, Ichthyostega.    

Johanson, Z, PE Ahlberg & A Ritchie (2003), The braincase and palate of the tetrapodomorph sarcopterygian Mandageria fairfaxi: morphological variability near the fishtetrapod transition. Palaeontology 46: 271–293.  Ichthyostega.  

Kellogg, EA & ND Juliano (1997), The Structure and function of RuBisCo and their implications for systematic studies.  Amer. J. Bot. 84: 413–428.  Acanthostega.

Laurin, M, M Girondot & A de Ricqlès (2000), Early tetrapod evolution. Tree 15: 118-123.  Acanthostega.

Lebedev, OA & JA Clack (1993), Upper Devonian tetrapods from Andreyeva, Tula Region, Russia.  Paleontology 36: 721-734.  Tetrapoda, Tetrapoda.  

Lebedev, OA & MI Coates (1995), The postcranial skeleton of the Devonian tetrapod Tulerpeton curtum Lebedev.   Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 114: 307-348.  Acanthostega, Ichthyostega, Tetrapoda, Tetrapoda. 

Leebens-Mack, J & C dePamphilis (2002), Power analysis of tests for loss of selective constraint in cave crayfish and nonphotosynthetic plant lineages.  Mol. Biol. Evol. 19: 1292-1302.  Acanthostega.

Long, JA & MS Gordon (2004) The greatest step in vertebrate history: a paleobiological review of the fish-tetrapod transition.  Physiol. Biochem. Zool., 77: 700-719.  Acanthostega, Ichthyostega.  

Manley, GA & JA Clack (2004), Vertebrate systematics and an outline of the evolution of vertebrate hearing organs, in GA Manley, A Popper & RR Fay [eds.], Evolution of the Vertebrate Auditory System.  Springer-Verlag, pp. 1-26.  Tetrapoda.  

Milner, AC & W Lindsay (1998), Postcranial remains of Baphetes and their bearing on the relationships of the Baphetidae (=Loxommatidae).  Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 122: 211-235. Baphetes, Baphetidae.

Ruta, M, MI Coates & DLJ Quicke (2003), Early tetrapod relationships revisited.  Biol. Rev. 78: 251-345. Acanthostega, Ichthyostega, Tetrapoda

Shear, WA & PA Selden (2001), Rustling in the undergrowth: animals in early terrestrial ecosystems in PG Gensel & D Edwards [eds.], Plants Invade the Land, Columbia Univ. Press, pp. 29-51.  Tetrapoda.  

Shubin, NH, EB Daeschler, & MI Coates (2004), The early evolution of the tetrapod humerus.  Science 304: 90-93.  Acanthostega, Tetrapoda, Tetrapoda.  

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