Micromelerpetontidae
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| Micromelerpetontidae | |
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| Fossil of Micromelerpeton credneri in the Museum of Man and Nature, Munich | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | "Amphibia" (wide sense) |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Superfamily: | †Dissorophoidea |
| Family: | †Micromelerpetontidae Boy, 1972 |
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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
- 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
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