Nigerpeton

Nigerpeton
Temporal range: Late Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Temnospondyli
Superfamily: Edopoidea
Family: Cochleosauridae
Subfamily: Cochleosaurinae
Genus: Nigerpeton
Sidor et al., 2005
Species
  • Nigerpeton ricqlesi

Nigerpeton is a genus of temnospondyl amphibian which lived during the Permian period some 250 million years ago in Niger. Specimens of Nigerpeton were first collected during field work in the Moradi Formation in 2000 and 2003.

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