Diploceraspis

{{Short description|Extinct genus of tetrapodomorphs}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|fossil_range = {{fossilrange|299|270}} Early Permian

|image = Diploceraspis12DB.jpg

|taxon = Diploceraspis

|authority = Romer, 1952

|type_species = Diploceraspis burkei

|type_species_authority = Romer, 1952

}}

Diploceraspis is a genus of diplocaulid nectrideans. It lived in North America during the Permian period. It closely resembles its relative, Diplocaulus. It generally sports the same features as Diplocaulus, though it was smaller, measuring over 46 cm.http://www.angellis.net/Web/PDfiles/amphs.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}} Beerbower originally recognised two species, D. burkei and D. conemaughensis, but they are no longer regarded as being distinct from one another as their size ranges were found to overlap.{{cite journal | url=https://www.academia.edu/1093783 | title=The Moroccan diplocaulid: the last lepospondyl, the single one on Gondwana | author=Germain D. | journal=Historical Biology | year=2010 | volume=22 | issue=1–3 | pages=4–39 | doi=10.1080/08912961003779678| bibcode=2010HBio...22....4G | s2cid=128605530 }} Other species include D. meritae from Nebraska and an indeterminate species from Oklahoma.{{Cite journal|last1=May|first1=William J.|last2=Hall|first2=Joseph D.|date=2016|title=First Occurrence of the Diplocaulid Genus Diploceraspis from the Wellington Formation (Lower Permian) of Northern Oklahoma|url=http://www.bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.1660/062.119.0209|journal=Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science|language=en-US|volume=119|issue=2|pages=193–199|doi=10.1660/062.119.0209|s2cid=87685299 |url-access=subscription}} Diplocaulus minimus of Late Permian Morocco may be of this genus.