| Eupelor Temporal range: Late Triassic,
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| Left clavicular plate of ?Eupelor durus seen from the outer aspect (left) and the inner aspect (right) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
| Family: | †Metoposauridae |
| Genus: | †Eupelor Cope, 1868 |
| Type species | |
| †Eupelor durus Cope, 1868
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Eupelor is a dubious genus of prehistoric amphibian belonging to the temnospondyl family Metoposauridae.[1][2][3] Fossils have been found in present-day Pennsylvania, within the Newark Supergroup, dating to the Late Triassic (Norian).[4]
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- ^ Colbert, Edwin Harris; Imbrie, John (9 July 1956). "Triassic metoposaurid amphibians". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 110 (6): 399–452. hdl:2246/431.
- ^ Chowdhury, T. Roy; Mahalanobis, Prasanta Chandra (1965-11-18). "A new metoposaurid amphibian from the upper Triassic Maleri formation of Central India". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 250 (761): 1–52. Bibcode:1965RSPTB.250....1C. doi:10.1098/rstb.1965.0019.
- ^ Sulej, Tomasz (2002). "Species discrimination of the Late Triassic temnospondyl amphibian Metoposaurus diagnosticus" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 47 (3): 535–546.
- ^ von Huene, F., 1921 - Reptilian and stegocephalian remains from the Triassic of Pennsylvania in the Cope Collection. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 44, article 19.