Anoualerpeton

Anoualerpeton; Temporal range: 166–140 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N Bathonian to Berriasian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	†Allocaudata
Family:	†Albanerpetontidae
Genus:	†Anoualerpeton; Gardner et al., 2003
Species
	†A. unicus Gardner et al., 2003 (type); †A. priscus Gardner et al., 2003;

Anoualerpeton is an extinct genus of lissamphibian in the family Albanerpetontidae. Fossils have been found of two different species in Forest Marble Formation of England and the Ksar Metlili Formation of Morocco dating back to the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic and the Berriasian stage of the Early Cretaceous, respectively.

It is thought to be the most basal genus of the Albanerpetontids, and in the case of the species A. unicus, the only albanerpetontid known to have existed in Gondwana.[1]

References

Gardner, J.D., Evans, S.E., and Sigogneau−Russell, D. (2003). New albanerpetontid amphibians from the Early Cretaceous of Morocco and Middle Jurassic of England. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48(2): 301–319.

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[1] Gardner, J.D., Evans, S.E., and Sigogneau−Russell, D. (2003). New albanerpetontid amphibians from the Early Cretaceous of Morocco and Middle Jurassic of England. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48(2): 301–319.