Batrachiderpeton Temporal range: Carboniferous,
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Clade: | Tetrapodomorpha |
Order: | †Nectridea |
Family: | †Diplocaulidae |
Genus: | †Batrachiderpeton Hancock and Atthey, 1869 |
Type species | |
†Batrachiderpeton reticulatum Hancock & Athey, 1869
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Batrachiderpeton is an extinct genus of nectridean tetrapodomorphs within the family Diplocaulidae; it was a basal member of the family.[1] The type species is B. reticulatum and was found in a coal field in Northumberland, England at a locality that also yields the remains of Anthracosaurus russelli.[3] A second species is also known: B. lineatum.[3]
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