Melanerpeton

{{Short description|Extinct genus of amphibians}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Early Permian

| taxon = Melanerpeton

| authority = Fritsch 1878

| subdivision =

M.arnhardti

M.spiniceps

M.eisfeldi

M.sembachense

M.falax

M.sacheti

M.humbergense

M.pusillum

M.latirostris

M.pulcherrimum

M.longicaudatum

M.potamites

M.magnum

M.moravicum

M.perneri

}}

Melanerpeton is an extinct genus of prehistoric amphibian that lived during the Permian approximately 285 million years ago in what would become Europe.