Devonian tetrapod from western Europe

Gaël Clément, Per E. Ahlberg, Alain Blieck, Henning Blom, Jennifer A. Clack, Edouard Poty, Jacques Thorez and Philippe Janvier
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Gaël Clément: UMR 5143, CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Per E. Ahlberg: Uppsala University
Alain Blieck: UMR 8014, CNRS, USTL Sciences de la Terre
Henning Blom: University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
Jennifer A. Clack: University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
Edouard Poty: Université de Liège, Sart-Tilman
Jacques Thorez: Université de Liège, Sart-Tilman
Philippe Janvier: UMR 5143, CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Nature, 2004, vol. 427, issue 6973, 412-413

Abstract: Abstract Several discoveries of Late Devonian tetrapods (limbed vertebrates) have been made during the past two decades1,2,3, but each has been confined to one locality. Here we describe a tetrapod jaw of about 365 million years (Myr) old from the Famennian of Belgium, which is the first from western continental Europe. The jaw closely resembles that of Ichthyostega, a Famennian tetrapod hitherto known only from Greenland. The environment of this fossil provides information about the conditions that prevailed just before the virtual disappearance of tetrapods from the fossil record for 20 Myr.

Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1038/427412a

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