Melanerpeton
Appearance
(Redirected from Melanerpeton eisfeldi)
Melanerpeton Temporal range: Early Permian
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Temnospondyli |
Family: | †Branchiosauridae |
Genus: | †Melanerpeton Fritsch 1878 |
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M.arnhardti |
Melanerpeton is an extinct genus of prehistoric amphibian that lived during the Permian approximately 285 million years ago in what would become Europe.
References
[edit]- Werneburg, R. (2007) Timeless design: colored pattern of skin in early Permian branchiosaurids (Temnospondyli: Dissorophoidea). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27, 1047–1050.
- Fossilworks Paleobiological database[1]