Shirerpeton Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Reassembled skull seen from multiple angles and a line drawing of the skull | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | †Allocaudata |
Family: | †Albanerpetontidae |
Genus: | †Shirerpeton Masumoto & Evans, 2018 |
Type species | |
†Shirerpeton isajii Masumoto & Evans, 2018
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Shirerpeton is an extinct genus of albanerpetontid amphibian from the Early Cretaceous Kuwajima Formation, which is located in Japan.[1] The type species is Shirerpeton isajii, which was described by Masumoto & Evans in 2018.[2] Shirerpeton represents the first record of Albanerpetontidae in East Asia and the holotype is SBEI 2459, a small block bearing most of a disarticulated but associated skull with some postcranial elements present as well.[2]