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''Micromelerpeton'' is an extinct genus of
dissorophoidea Dissorophoideans are a clade of medium-sized, temnospondyl amphibians that appeared during the Moscovian in Euramerica, and continued through to the Late Permian and the Early Triassic of Gondwana. They are distinguished by various details of the ...
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euskelia Euskelia is a clade of extinct Temnospondyl amphibians. ''Euskelia'' is a stem-based taxon including all temnospondyls more closely related to ''Eryops'' than to ''Parotosuchus ''Parotosuchus'' is an extinct genus of capitosaurian temnospondyl ...
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temnospondyl Temnospondyli (from Greek language, Greek τέμνειν, ''temnein'' 'to cut' and σπόνδυλος, ''spondylos'' 'vertebra') is a diverse order (biology), order of small to giant tetrapods—often considered Labyrinthodontia, primitive amphi ...
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Micromelerpetontidae Micromelerpetontidae (also spelled Micromelerpetidae) is an extinct family of dissorophoid temnospondyl amphibians that lived from the Late Carboniferous to the Early Permian in what is now Europe, with one Carboniferous species also known from N ...
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* Dissorophoids Fossils of Germany Prehistoric amphibian genera Carboniferous temnospondyls of Europe Permian temnospondyls of Europe Fossil taxa described in 1926 {{Temnospondyli-stub