Coelostegus
| Coelostegus Temporal range: Late Carboniferous,
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Reptiliomorpha |
| Genus: | †Coelostegus Carroll & Baird, 1972 |
| Species: | †C. prothales
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| †Coelostegus prothales Carroll & Baird, 1972
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Coelostegus is an extinct genus of Late Carboniferous (late Westphalian stage) basal reptiliomorph known from Plzeň of Czech Republic. It is known from the holotype ČGH 3027, a partial skeleton of an immature individual. It was collected in the Nýřany site from the Nýřany Member of the Kladno Formation. It was first named by Robert L. Carroll and Donald Baird in 1972 and the type species is Coelostegus prothales.[1] Initially regarded as a reptile,[2] subsequent research has suggested affinities with non-amniote tetrapods, closely related to Brouffia.[3]
References
- ^ Robert L. Carroll & Donald Baird (1972). "Carboniferous Stem-Reptiles of the Family Romeriidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 143 (5): 321–363.
- ^ Müller, J.; Reisz, R. R. (2006). "The phylogeny of early eureptiles: comparing parsimony and Bayesian approaches in the investigation of a basal fossil clade". Systematic Biology. 55 (3): 503–511. doi:10.1080/10635150600755396. PMID 16861212.
- ^ Jenkins, Xavier A; Benson, Roger BJ; Ford, David P; Browning, Claire; Fernandez, Vincent; Dollman, Kathleen; Gomes, Timothy; Griffiths, Elizabeth; Choiniere, Jonah N; Peecook, Brandon R (2025-08-28). "Evolutionary assembly of crown reptile anatomy clarified by late Paleozoic relatives of Neodiapsida". Peer Community Journal. 5 e89. doi:10.24072/pcjournal.620. ISSN 2804-3871.