| Beiyanerpeton Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Urodela |
| Suborder: | Salamandroidea |
| Genus: | †Beiyanerpeton Gao & Shubin, 2012 |
| Type species | |
| †Beiyanerpeton jianpingensis Gao & Shubin, 2012
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Beiyanerpeton is an extinct genus of salamandroid amphibians known from the Late Jurassic of western Liaoning Province, China. It contains a single species, B. jianpingensis.[1] Alternative analyses suggest that B. jianpingensis is a stem salamander and not a salamandroid.[2]
- ^ Ke-Qin Gao and Neil H. Shubin (2012). "Late Jurassic salamandroid from western Liaoning, China". PNAS. 109 (15): 5767–5772. doi:10.1073/pnas.1009828109. PMC 3326464. PMID 22411790.
- ^ Jones, Marc E. H.; Benson, Roger B. J.; Skutschas, Pavel; Hill, Lucy; Panciroli, Elsa; Schmitt, Armin D.; Walsh, Stig A.; Evans, Susan E. (2022-07-11). "Middle Jurassic fossils document an early stage in salamander evolution". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119 (30): e2114100119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2114100119. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 9335269. PMID 35858401.