Nigerpeton
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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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| Superfamily: | Edopoidea
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| Genus: | Nigerpeton Sidor et al., 2005
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Nigerpeton is a genus of temnospondyl amphibian which lived during the late Permian (Changhsingian) some 250 million years ago in Niger, in what was then central Pangaea. Specimens of Nigerpeton were first collected during field work in the Moradi Formation in 2000 and 2003. It is the youngest member of Cochleosauridae, a family of temnospondyls otherwise known from the late Carboniferous and early Permian of Europe and North America.
External links[]
- Steyer, J. S., Damiani, R., Sidor, C. A., O'Keefe, R., Larsson, H. C. E., Maga, A. & Ide, O. (2006) The vertebrate fauna of the Upper Permian of Niger. IV. Nigerpeton ricqlesi (Temnospondyli: Cochleosauridae), and the edopoid colonization of Gondwana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26, 18–28.
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Categories:
- Permian amphibians of Africa
- Edopoids
- Fossil taxa described in 2005
- Prehistoric amphibian genera
- Taxa named by Christian Sidor
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