''Limnerpeton'' is an extinct

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dissorophoidea Dissorophoidea is a clade of medium-sized, temnospondyl amphibians that appeared during the Moscovian in Euramerica, and continued through to the Late Permian and the Early Triassic of Gondwana. They are distinguished by various details of the ...

euskelia Euskelia is a proposed clade of extinct temnospondyl amphibians. The naming derives from the ancient Greek ''eu'', meaning "true", and ''skelos'', meaning "limb", in reference to well-ossified limb bones with crests to which muscles were attached ...

temnospondyl Temnospondyli (from Greek language, Greek τέμνειν, ''temnein'' 'to cut' and σπόνδυλος, ''spondylos'' 'vertebra') or temnospondyls is a diverse ancient order (biology), order of small to giant tetrapods—often considered Labyrinth ...

within the

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Amphibamidae The Amphibamidae are an ancient family of dissorophoid temnospondyls known from Late Carboniferous-Early Permian strata in the United States. Classification Amphibamidae has traditionally included small-bodied, terrestrial dissorophoids. The ...

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). ''"Limnerpeton" elegans'' was reassigned to

Micromelerpetontidae Micromelerpetontidae (also spelled Micromelerpetidae) is an extinct family of dissorophoid temnospondyls that lived from the Late Carboniferous to the Early Permian in what is now Europe, with one Carboniferous species also known from North Afric ...

and renamed ''

Limnogyrinus ''Limnogyrinus'' is an extinct genus of dissorophoidean temnospondyl within the family Micromelerpetontidae Micromelerpetontidae (also spelled Micromelerpetidae) is an extinct family of dissorophoid temnospondyls that lived from the Late Carbo ...

'' by Milner (1986). ''"Limnerpeton" caducus'' is a junior synonym of ''

Oestocephalus ''Oestocephalus'' is an extinct genus of Aïstopoda, aïstopod tetrapodomorphs that lived during the Carboniferous period. Fossils have been found in the Czech Republic, and in Ohio and Illinois in the United States. It is the type genus of the f ...

'', while ''"Limnerpeton" obtusatum'' was synonymized with ''

Microbrachis ''Microbrachis'' is an extinct genus of microsaurian tetrapod from the Carboniferous Kladno Formation of the Czech Republic. Description ''Microbrachis'' was an elongated, salamander-like creature, about long, with over 40 vertebrae instea ...

'' by Carroll and Gaskill (1978).Carroll, R.L. and Gaskill, P. 1978. The Order Microsauria. Memoir of the American Philosophical Society 126: 1–211.

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Amphibamids Dissorophidae Prehistoric amphibian genera {{temnospondyli-stub

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