Balanerpeton
| Balanerpeton Temporal range:
Early Carboniferous | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Family: | †Dendrerpetontidae |
| Genus: | †Balanerpeton Milner & Sequeira, 1994 |
| Species: | †B. woodi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Balanerpeton woodi Milner & Sequeira, 1994
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Balanerpeton is an extinct genus of
ossified branchial system. The principal method of respiration was probably buccal (gulping air through mouth) rather than costal (expanding chest volume to take in air), indicated by the small straight ribs.[1]
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