Buettnererpeton

Buettnererpeton
Temporal range: Late Triassic
Holotype skull
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Temnospondyli
Suborder: †Stereospondyli
Family: †Metoposauridae
Genus: †Buettnererpeton
Gee & Kufner, 2022
Type species
†Buettnererpeton bakeri
Case, 1931
Synonyms
List
  • Buettneria bakeri Case, 1931
  • Metoposaurus bakeri Hunt, 1993
  • Koskinonodon bakeri Brusatte et al., 2015
Life restoration

Buettnererpeton is an extinct genus of large temnospondyls known from the Late Triassic Dockum Group in Texas. The type species, B. bakeri, was long classified as part of other genera, such as Metoposaurus and Koskinonodon, but was placed in its own genus in 2022.[1]

  1. ^ Gee, Bryan M.; Kufner, Aaron M. (2022). "Revision of the Late Triassic metoposaurid "Metoposaurus" bakeri (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from Texas, USA and a phylogenetic analysis of the Metoposauridae". PeerJ. 10: e14065. doi:10.7717/peerj.14065. S2CID 252894139.