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A new species of dissorophoid temnospondyl, Melanerpeton kuselense new species, is reported from the Remigiusberg Formation (Carboniferous-Permian boundary) of southwestern Germany. The type and only known specimen is a skull belonging to a moderately advanced larva with distinctive features: (1) a very slender postorbital skull table, (2) large nasal, (3) short squamosal giving a short gape, and (4) a gracile and extremely small pterygoid. Phylogenetic analysis finds it to fall well within the branchiosaurids, above the Pennsylvanian Branchiosaurinae, and sister taxon to Melanerpeton pusillum Fritsch, 1878 from lower Permian deposits of the Czech Republic. It is not closely related to any of the branchiosaurids from the Saar-Nahe Basin, adding to the distinctive Remigiusberg tetrapod faunal assemblage. UUID: http://zoobank.org/52c398e1-78be-45db-b2e0-988fc3c1af77
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