New discoveries of tetrapods (ichthyostegid-like and whatcheeriid-like) in the Famennian (Late Devonian) localities of Strud and Becco (Belgium)

• Published in: Palaeontology
• Main Authors: Olive, Sébastien, Ahlberg, Per E., Pernègre, Vincent N., Poty, Édouard, Steurbaut, Étienne, Clément, Gaël
• Other Authors: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Université de Liège, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Centre de recherche sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements (CR2P), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology; Becco; Greenland; Liège; East Greenland
• Online Access: https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01472852; https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01472852/document; https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01472852/file/Olive_2016_New_Discoveries_of.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12261

International audience The origin of tetrapods is one of the key events in vertebrate history. The oldest tetrapod body fossils are Late Devonian (Frasnian–Famennian) in age, most of them consisting of rare isolated bone elements. Here we describe tetrapod remains from two Famennian localities from...