Apateon [SEP] parent taxon
Apateon
Apateon is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian within the family Branchiosauridae.
Species.
- †"Apateon caducus"
- †"Apateon dracyi"
- †"Apateon flagrifer"
- †"Apateon gracilis"
- †"Apateon kontheri"
- †"Apateon pedestris" von Meyer 1840
- †"Apateon umbrosus"
Fossil record.
Fossils of "Apateon " are found in freshwaters strata of Permian of Germany (age range: from 295.0 to 290.1 million years ago.).
Description.
 These amphibians could reach a length
Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of