Baphetes

Il bafete (gen. Baphetes) è un tetrapode estinto, appartenente ai bafetoidi. Visse nel Carbonifero superiore (circa 315 - 306 milioni di anni fa) e i suoi resti fossili sono stati ritrovati in Nordamerica e in Europa.

Baphetes
Cranio di Baphetes planiceps
Classificazione scientifica
Dominio	Eukaryota
Regno	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Superclasse	Tetrapoda
Famiglia	Baphetidae
Genere	Baphetes
Specie
† B. planiceps (olotipo) † B. bohemicus † B. kirkbyi † B. lintonensis

Bibliografia

• Owen, R. (1854), Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World. London: Crystal Palace Library.
• R. Owen. 1861. Palaeontology, or a Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and their Geological Relations. Second Edition. Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh 1-463
• D. M. S. Watson. 1929. The Carboniferous Amphibia of Scotland. Palaeontologia Hungarica 1:223-252
• Beaumont, EH (1977), Cranial morphology of the Loxommatidae (Amphibia: Labyrinthodontia). Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 280: 29-101.
• Milner, AC & W Lindsay (1998), Postcranial remains of Baphetes and their bearing on the relationships of the Baphetidae =Loxommatidae). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 122: 211-235.
• A. C. Milner, A. R. Milner, and S. A. Walsh. 2009. A new specimen of Baphetes from Nyrany, Czech Republic and the intrinsic relationships of the Baphetidae. Acta Zoologica 90:318-334
• J. A. Clack and A. R. Milner. 2015. Handbook of Paleoherpetology, Part 3A1: Basal Tetrapoda.

Collegamenti esterni

• (EN) Baphetes, su Fossilworks.org.