Dendrerpeton

Dendrerpeton Temporal range: Early - Late Carboniferous
Skull of Dendrerpeton on display at the Redpath Museum, Montreal
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Family:	†Dendrerpetontidae
Genus:	†Dendrerpeton Owen, 1853
Type species
†Dendrerpeton acadianum Owen, 1853

Dendrerpeton is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Carboniferous of Nova Scotia. 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 tetrapods.

The specimens are generally 100 cm and possess large otic notch in the back of the skull.

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