Wesserpeton

Wesserpeton
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, Barremian
The holotype of W. evansae - an isolated azygous frontal, in dorsal (left) and ventral (right) view, from the Lower Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight, southern England.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Allocaudata
Family: Albanerpetontidae
Genus: Wesserpeton
Sweetman & Gardner, 2012
Species:
W. evansae
Binomial name
Wesserpeton evansae
Sweetman & Gardner, 2012

Wesserpeton is an extinct genus of albanerpetontid amphibian known from the Isle of Wight, southern England.[1]

  1. ^ Steven C. Sweetman; James D. Gardner (2013). "A new albanerpetontid amphibian from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, southern England". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 58 (2): 295–324. doi:10.4202/app.2011.0109.