Bageherpeton
Bageherpeton Temporal range:
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Kingdom: | Animalia
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Phylum: | Chordata
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Class: | Amphibia
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Order: | Temnospondyli
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Genus: | Bageherpeton Dias-da-Silva & Barberena, 2001.
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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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Categories:
- Permian temnospondyls of South America
- Fossil taxa described in 2001
- Taxa named by Mário Costa Barberena
- Prehistoric amphibian stubs