Coloraderpeton

{{Short description|Extinct genus of tetrapodomorphs}}

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| fossil_range = Late Carboniferous, {{fossil range|302}}

| image = Coloraderpeton.jpg

| image_caption = Life restoration

| parent_authority = Vaughn, 1969

| taxon = Coloraderpeton brilli

| authority = Vaughn, 1969

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Coloraderpeton is an extinct tetrapodomorph in the genus aïstopod within the family Oestocephalidae.{{Cite journal|last=Vaughn|first=Peter Paul|date=26 June 1969|title=Upper Pennsylvanian vertebrates from the Sangre de Cristo Formation of Central Colorado|url=https://nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS164.pdf|journal=Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science|volume=164|pages=1-28|access-date=22 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629121144/http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS164.pdf|archive-date=29 June 2016|url-status=dead}}{{cite journal |last=Anderson |first=J. S. |year=2003 |title=Cranial anatomy of Coloraderpeton brilli, postcranial anatomy of Oestocephalus amphiuminus, and reconsideration of Ophiderpetontidae (Tetrapoda: Lepospondyli: Aistopoda)|journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=532–543 |doi=10.1671/1752}} Coloraderpeton is known from the Carboniferous Sangre de Cristo Formation of Colorado, and was initially known from vertebrae, ribs, and scales recovered from a UCLA field expedition in 1966. Peter Paul Vaughn described these remains in 1969. A skull was later reported in an unpublished 1983 thesis and formally described by Jason S. Anderson in 2003.