Ichthyostega, from Ancient Greek ἰχθύς, meaning "fish", and στέγη, meaning "roof", is an extinct genus of limbed tetrapodomorphs from the Late Devonian of what is now Greenland. It was among the earli
Skull A.199, Zoological Museum of Copenhagen
Tail with fin rays, counterpart of specimen A.69
Simplified phylogeny of the fish–tetrapod transition.
Ichthyostegalia is an obsolete order of early amphibians, representing the earliest landliving vertebrates. The group is thus an evolutionary grade rather than a clade. While the group are recognized