Micromelerpetontidae
Appearance
Micromelerpetontidae | |
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Fossil of Micromelerpeton credneri in the Museum of Man and Nature, Munich | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Temnospondyli |
Superfamily: | †Dissorophoidea |
Family: | †Micromelerpetontidae Boy, 1972 |
Genera | |
Branchierpeton |
Micromelerpetontidae is an extinct family of dissorophoid temnospondyl amphibians that lived from the Late Carboniferous to the Early Permian in what is now Europe.
References
- ^ Rainer R. Schoch and Andrew R. Milner (2014). Handbook of Paleoherpetology. Part 3A2. Temnospondyli I. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil. p. 43. ISBN 978-3-89937-170-3.
- ^ Rainer R. Schoch and Andrew R. Milner (2014). Handbook of Paleoherpetology. Part 3A2. Temnospondyli I. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil. p. 45. ISBN 978-3-89937-170-3.
- Milner, A. R. & Sequeira, S. E. K. (2003) Revision of the amphibian genus Limnerpeton (Temnospondyli) from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica: Vol. 48, #1, pp. 123–141
- Witzmann, F. & Pfretzschner, H. U. (2003) Larval ontology of Micromelerpeton credneri (Temnospondyli, Dissorophoidea). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 23, #4, pp. 750–768