Limnerpeton
Limnerpeton is an extinct genus of dissorophoidean euskelian temnospondyl within the family Amphibamidae.
| Limnerpeton Temporal range: Late Carboniferous, | |
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| Genus: | †Limnerpeton Fritsch, 1881 |
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| †Limnerpeton modestum Fritsch, 1881 | |
Taxonomy
Limnerpeton is currently restricted to the type species L. modestum, which is dubious but represents an amphibamid. The nominal species "Limnerpeton" laticeps was later assigned to the trematopid Mordex but has been placed in a separate trematopid genus Mattauschia following Milner (2018). The nominal species L." macrolepis was synonymized with laticeps by Milner and Sequeira (2003) and Milner (2018).[1][2] "Limnerpeton" elegans was reassigned to Micromelerpetontidae and renamed Limnogyrinus by Milner (1986).[3] "Limnerpeton" caducus is a junior synonym of Oestocephalus, while "Limnerpeton" obtusatum was synonymized with Microbrachis by Carroll and Gaskill (1978).[4]
References
- Milner, A.R. and Sequeira, S.E.K. 2003. Revision of the amphibian genus Limnerpeton (Temnospondyli) from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48 (1): 123–141.
- Andrew R. Milner (2018). Two primitive trematopid amphibians (Temnospondyli, Dissorophoidea) from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. in press. doi:10.1017/S1755691018000725.
- Milner, A.R.1986.Dissorophoid amphibians from the Upper Carboniferous of Nýřany. In: Z. Roček (ed.),StudiesinHerpetology,671–674.Charles University, Prague.
- Carroll, R.L. and Gaskill, P. 1978. The Order Microsauria. Memoir of the American Philosophical Society 126: 1–211.
