{{Short description|Extinct genus of amphibians}} {{onesource|date=July 2022}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|68|66}} | image = Scapherpeton.jpg | image_caption = ''Scapherpeton tectum'' jaw | taxon = Scapherpeton | authority = Cope, 1876 }}
'''''Scapherpeton''''' is an extinct genus of prehistoric amphibian. Fossils of it have been found in the Hell Creek Formation.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Auffenberg |first=Walter |last2=Goin |first2=Coleman J |date=December 22, 1959 |title=The Status of the Salamander Genera ''Scapherpeton'' and ''Hemitrypus'' of Cope |url=https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/2508/N1979.pdf?sequence=1 |journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=1979}}</ref>
== See also == * Prehistoric amphibian * List of prehistoric amphibians
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Category:Prehistoric salamanders Category:Cretaceous amphibians of North America Category:Cretaceous United States Category:Hell Creek fauna Category:Laramie Formation Category:Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary Category:Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope
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