Batropetes
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Batropetes Temporal range: Early Permian |
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| Restoration of Batropetes fritschi | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subclass: | †Lepospondyli |
| Order: | †"Microsauria" |
| Family: | †Brachystelechidae |
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†Batropetes Carroll and Gaskill, 1971 |
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†B. appelensis Glienke, 2015 |
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†B. appelensis Glienke, 2015
†B. fritschi Carroll, 1991 (type)
†B. niederkirchensis Glienke, 2013
†B. palatinus <small<Glienke, 2015
Batropetes is an extinct genus of brachystelechid microbrachomorphs. Although it was first classified as a reptile, Batropetes is now known to be a genus of microsaur amphibians.Batropetes lived during the Sakmarian stage of the Early Permian. Fossils attributable to the type species B. fritschi have been collected from the town of Freital in Saxony, Germany, near the city of Dresden. Additional material has been found from the Saar-Nahe Basin in southwestern Germany and has been assigned to three additional species: B. niederkirchensis, B. palatinus, and B. appelensis.
Batropetes is small and short-bodied for a microsaur. Its average total body length was about 8 centimetres (3.1 in). The orbits are large and the skull is short. Batropetes possesses scales on its underside that are similar to those of reptiles.
Batropetes is distinguished from Carrolla, another brachystelechid microsaur, by the presence of three cusps on the premaxillary and anterior dentary teeth. In Carrolla, there are only two cusps. Additional diagnostic features seen in Batropetes include a supraoccipital bone that is not fused to the otic capsule, the presence of a retroarticular process (a projection at the back of the lower jaw), and two proximal bones in the tarsus.
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