Batrachiderpeton

{{Short description|Extinct genus of tetrapodomorphs}}

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| fossil_range = Carboniferous, {{Fossil range|318.1|314.6|ref=}}

| image = Batrachiderpeton NT.png

| image_caption = Life restoration

| taxon = Batrachiderpeton

| authority = Hancock and Atthey, 1869

| type_species = {{extinct}}Batrachiderpeton reticulatum

| type_species_authority = Hancock & Athey, 1869

| subdivision_ranks = Other species

| subdivision = {{Species list | {{extinct}}Batrachiderpeton lineatum | Hancock and Atthey, 1869}}

| subdivision_ref = {{fossilworks |id=340054 |title=Batrachiderpeton |date=4 August 2022}}

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Batrachiderpeton is an extinct genus of nectridean tetrapodomorphs within the family Diplocaulidae; it was a basal member of the family. The type species is B. reticulatum and was found in a coal field in Northumberland, England at a locality that also yields the remains of Anthracosaurus russelli.Hancock, A. & Athey, T. (1869). On a new labyrinthodont from the Northumberland coal field, and on the occurrence in the same locality of Anthracosaurus russelli. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4(4):182-189 A second species is also known: B. lineatum.