Tinirau clackae
| Tinirau clackae Temporal range: Middle Devonian, | |
|---|---|
| Holotype fossil and interpretive drawing of Tinirau clackae | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Clade: | Tetrapodomorpha |
| Clade: | Eotetrapodiformes |
| Genus: | †Tinirau Swartz, 2012 |
| Species: | †T. clackae |
| Binomial name | |
| †Tinirau clackae Swartz, 2012 | |
| Synonyms | |
|
Bruehnopteron murphyi Schultze & Reed (2012)? | |
Tinirau is an extinct genus of sarcopterygian fish from the Middle Devonian of Nevada. Although it spent its entire life in the ocean, Tinirau is a stem tetrapod close to the ancestry of land-living vertebrates in the crown group Tetrapoda. Relative to more well-known stem tetrapods, Tinirau is more closely related to Tetrapoda than is Eusthenopteron, but farther from Tetrapoda than is Panderichthys. The type and only species of Tinirau is T. clackae, named in 2012.