Bageherpeton

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Bageherpeton
Temporal range: Upper Permian
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Amphibia
Order:
Temnospondyli
Family:
Genus:
Bageherpeton

Dias-da-Silva & Barberena, 2001.
Species
  • B. longignathus (Dias-da-Silva e Barberena, (2001) (type)

Bageherpeton is an extinct genus of archaegosaurid temnospondyl amphibian from the Upper Permian period of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Paleorrota). It was found in the Rio do Rasto Formation, and was named in honor of the city of Bagé near where it was found. It was described from a lower jaw.[1]

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