| Albanerpetontidae Temporal range: Middle Jurassic – Pleistocene
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| Fossil of Celtedens ibericus, showing the remains of scales surrounding the body in grey | |
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| Skull of Yaksha peretti | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | †Allocaudata Fox and Naylor, 1982 |
| Family: | †Albanerpetontidae Fox and Naylor, 1982 |
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The Albanerpetontidae (also spelled Albanerpetidae and Albanerpetonidae) are an extinct family of small amphibians, native to the Northern Hemisphere during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. The only members of the order Allocaudata, they are thought to be allied with living amphibians belonging to Lissamphibia. Despite a superficially salamander-like bodyform, their anatomy is strongly divergent from modern amphibians in numerous aspects. The fossil record of albanerpetontids spans over 160 million years from the Middle Jurassic to the beginning of the Pleistocene, about 2.13–2 million years ago.