Dendrerpeton Fossil range: Late Carboniferous
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Temnospondyli Family: Dendrerpetontidae Genus: Dendrerpeton
Binomial name
Dendrerpeton acadianum1

A fossil specimen of the skull of a Dendrerpeton, on display at the Redpath Museum, Montreal.

Dendrerpeton is an extinct genus of amphibian. They are generally found associated with hollows of the Lepidodendron and Sigillaria tree genera, for which their fossils are contained within. These fossils are disarticulated and flattened providing poor specimens. In this species the stapes was used as a support structure for the ear than for hearing as in later tetropods¹.

The specimens are generally 100 cm, large otic notch in the back of the skull ².

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Dendrerpeton and Joggins, Nova Scotia" (11 May 2008).
2. ^ "Temnospondyli section on Dendrerpeton" (11 May 2008).

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