| Anoualerpeton Temporal range: 166–137 Ma Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Subclass: | Lissamphibia |
| Order: | Allocaudata |
| Family: | Albanerpetontidae |
| Genus: | Anoualerpeton Gardner et al., 2003 |
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Anoualerpeton is an extinct genus of lissamphibian of the family Albanerpetontidae, which is the only family of the extinct order of amphibians Allocaudata. Fossils have been found of two different species in England and Morocco dating back to the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic and the Berriasian stage of the Early Cretaceous, respectively.
It is thought to be the most basal genus of the Albanerpetontids, and in the case of the species A. unicus, the only Albanerpetontid known to have existed in Gondwana[1].