Arkanserpeton

{{Short description|Extinct genus of amphibians}}

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| fossil_range = Pennsylvanian

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| taxon = Arkanserpeton

| authority = Lane, 1932

| type_species = {{extinct}}Arkanserpeton arcuatum

| type_species_authority = Lane, 1932

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Arkanserpeton is an extinct genus of dissorophoid temnospondyl represented by a fragmentary isolated femur{{Cite journal|last=Lane|first=Henry Higgins|title=A new Stegocephalian from the Pennsylvanian of Arkansas|journal=The University of Kansas Science Bulletin|volume=20|issue=17|pages=313–315|via=Biodiversity Heritage Library|doi=10.5962/bhl.part.19200|date=May 1, 1932|doi-access=free}} and an isolated neural arch.{{Cite book|title=Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie Part 3A2. Temnospondyli|editor-first1=Oskar|editor-last1= Kuhn |editor-first2= Peter|editor-last2= Wellnhofer| editor-first3=Hans-Dieter |editor-last3=Sues| editor-first4= Robert M. |editor-last4=Appleby |location=Munich / Stuttgart / New York|publisher=Co-published by F. Pfeil & G. Fischer|year=2014|isbn=9783931516260|oclc=580976}} 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.{{cite journal|last1=Hendricks|first1=Thomas A.|last2=Parks|first2=Bryan|title=Geology of the Fort Smith District, Arkansas|journal=U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper|date=1950|volume=221-E|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0221e/report.pdf}} It is not considered to be sufficiently diagnostic and was designated as a nomen dubium by Schoch & Milner (2014).