Isodectes

{{Short description|Extinct genus of amphibians}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Early Permian

| image = Isodectes obtusus.jpg

| image_caption = Restoration of Isodectes obtusus

| taxon = Isodectes

| authority = Cope, 1896

| type_species = {{extinct}}Isodectes obtusus

| type_species_authority = (Cope, 1896 [originally Dendrerpeton obtusus])

| synonyms =

• Saurerpeton Moodie, 1909

}}

Isodectes is an extinct genus of dvinosaurian temnospondyl within the family Eobrachyopidae. The genus Saurerpeton, named in 1909, is considered to be a junior synonym of Isodectes.{{Cite journal | last1 = Sequeira | first1 = S. E. K. | doi = 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb02531.x | title = The cranial morphology and taxonomy of the saurerpetontid Isodectes obtusus comb. Nov. (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the Lower Permian of Texas | journal = Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | volume = 122 | pages = 237–259 | year = 1998 | doi-access = free }}