| Arkanserpeton Temporal range: Early Permian | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Family: | †Dissorophidae |
| Genus: | †Arkanserpeton Lane, 1932 |
| Type species | |
| †Arkanserpeton arcuatum Lane, 1932 | |
Arkanserpeton is an extinct genus of dissorophoid temnospondyl represented by a fragmentary isolated femur and an isolated neural arch. The specimens were reported from a semianthracite coal bed from the Paris Shale. The names Paris Shale and Fort Smith Formation were abandoned, and the rocks that make up this section were placed in the Savanna Formation. It is not considered to be sufficiently diagnostic and was designated as a nomen dubium by Schoch & Milner (2014).
References
- ^ Lane, Henry Higgins (May 1, 1932). "A new Stegocephalian from the Pennsylvanian of Arkansas". The University of Kansas Science Bulletin. 20 (17): 313–315. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.19200 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- Kuhn, Oskar; Wellnhofer, Peter; Sues, Hans-Dieter; Appleby, Robert M., eds. (2014). Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie Part 3A2. Temnospondyli. Munich / Stuttgart / New York: Co-published by F. Pfeil & G. Fischer. ISBN 9783931516260. OCLC 580976.
- Hendricks, Thomas A.; Parks, Bryan (1950). "Geology of the Fort Smith District, Arkansas" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. 221-E.
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