# Limnerpeton

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***Limnerpeton*** is an extinct [genus](/source/Genus) of [dissorophoidean](/source/Dissorophoidea) [euskelian](/source/Euskelia) [temnospondyl](/source/Temnospondyl) within the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Amphibamidae](/source/Amphibamidae).

## Taxonomy

*Limnerpeton* is currently restricted to the type species *L. modestum*, which is dubious but represents an amphibamid. The nominal species *"Limnerpeton" laticeps* was later assigned to the trematopid *[Mordex](/source/Mordex)* but has been placed in a separate trematopid genus *[Mattauschia](/source/Mattauschia)* following Milner (2018). The nominal species *L." macrolepis* was synonymized with *laticeps* by Milner and Sequeira (2003) and Milner (2018).[1][2] *"Limnerpeton" elegans* was reassigned to [Micromelerpetontidae](/source/Micromelerpetontidae) and renamed *[Limnogyrinus](/source/Limnogyrinus)* by Milner (1986).[3] *"Limnerpeton" caducus* is a junior synonym of *[Oestocephalus](/source/Oestocephalus)*, while *"Limnerpeton" obtusatum* was synonymized with *[Microbrachis](/source/Microbrachis)* by Carroll and Gaskill (1978).[4]

## See also

- [Prehistoric amphibian](/source/Prehistoric_amphibian)
- [List of prehistoric amphibians](/source/List_of_prehistoric_amphibians)

## References

1. Milner, A.R. and Sequeira, S.E.K. 2003. Revision of the amphibian genus *Limnerpeton* (Temnospondyli) from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic. *Acta Palaeontologica Polonica* 48 (1): 123–141.

1. Andrew R. Milner (2018). Two primitive trematopid amphibians (Temnospondyli, Dissorophoidea) from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. in press. [doi:10.1017/S1755691018000725](https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691018000725).

1. Milner, A.R.1986.Dissorophoid amphibians from the Upper Carboniferous of Nýřany. In: Z. Roček (ed.), StudiesinHerpetology,671–674.Charles University, Prague.

1. Carroll, R.L. and Gaskill, P. 1978. The Order Microsauria. Memoir of the American Philosophical Society 126: 1–211.

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