Shirerpeton
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| Shirerpeton Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, | |
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| Reassembled skull seen from multiple angles and a line drawing of the skull | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | †Allocaudata |
| Family: | †Albanerpetontidae |
| Genus: | †Shirerpeton Masumoto & Evans, 2018 |
| Type species | |
| †Shirerpeton isajii Masumoto & Evans, 2018 | |
Shirerpeton is an extinct genus of albanerpetontid amphibian from the Early Cretaceous Kuwajima Formation, which is located in Japan.[1] The type species is Shirerpeton isajii, which was described by Masumoto & Evans in 2018.[2] Shirerpeton represents the first record of Albanerpetontidae in East Asia and the holotype is SBEI 2459, a small block bearing most of a disarticulated but associated skull with some postcranial elements present as well.[2]
