Batropetes [SEP] parent taxon
both of which are features that associate it with the North American genera "Carrolla" and "Quasicaecilia". On the basis of these and other similarities, Carroll, who described the new material in 1991, constructed a new microbrachomorph family called the Brachystelechidae to include "Batropetes", "Carrolla", and "Quasicaecilia".
A 2013 study of "Batropetes" erected a new species, "Batropetes niederkirchensis", for specimen SMNS 55884. SMNS 55884 was noted to differ from the type specimen of "B. fritschi
Batropetes
Batropetes is an extinct genus of brachystelechid microbrachomorphs. Although it was first classified as a reptile, "Batropetes" is now known to be a genus of microsaur amphibians. "Batropetes" lived during the Sakmarian stage of the Early Permian. Fossils attributable to the type species "B. fritschi" have been collected from the town of Freital in Saxony, Germany, near the city of Dresden. Additional material has been found from the Saar-Nahe Basin in southwestern Germany and has been assigned to three additional species: "