''Batrachiderpeton'' is an extinct

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nectridea Nectridea is an extinct order of lepospondyl tetrapods from the Carboniferous and Permian periods, including animals such as '' Diplocaulus''. In appearance, they would have resembled modern newts or aquatic salamanders, although they are not cl ...

tetrapodomorph Tetrapodomorpha (also known as Choanata) is a clade of vertebrates consisting of tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) and their closest sarcopterygian relatives that are more closely related to living tetrapods than to living lungfish. Advanced for ...

s within the

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Diplocaulidae The Diplocaulidae ("double cauls") is an extinct Family (biology), family of "nectridean" tetrapodomorphs that arose during the Late Carboniferous and died out in the Late Permian. They are distinguished by the presence of strange, horn-like pro ...

; it was a basal member of the family. The type species is ''B. reticulatum'' and was found in a

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at a locality that also yields the remains of '' Anthracosaurus russelli''.Hancock, A. & Athey, T. (1869). On a new labyrinthodont from the Northumberland coal field, and on the occurrence in the same locality of '' Anthracosaurus russelli''. ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'' 4(4):182-189 A second species is also known: ''B. lineatum''.

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Diplocaulidae Pennsylvanian sarcopterygians of Europe Fossil taxa described in 1871 {{Paleo-tetrapodomorph-stub