Dendrerpeton

Dendrerpeton
Temporal range: Early - Late Carboniferous
Skull of Dendrerpeton on display at the Redpath Museum, Montreal
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: "Amphibia" (wide sense)
Order: Temnospondyli
Family: Dendrerpetontidae
Genus: Dendrerpeton
Owen, 1853
Type species
Dendrerpeton acadianum
Owen, 1853
Restoration

Dendrerpeton is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Carboniferous of Nova Scotia.[1] They are generally found associated with hollows of the Lepidodendron and Sigillaria tree genera, for which their fossils are contained within. These fossils are disarticulated and flattened providing poor specimens. In this species the stapes was used as a support structure for the ear than for hearing as in later tetrapods.[1]

The specimens are generally 100 cm, large otic notch in the back of the skull.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Dendrerpeton and Joggins, Nova Scotia". 11 May 2008.
  2. "Temnospondyli section on Dendrerpeton". 11 May 2008.