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{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Thelerpeton
| fossil_range = [[Earth:Middle Triassic|Middle Triassic]], {{fossil_range|245|241}}
| authority = Modesto & Damiani, 2003
| type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Thelerpeton oppressus'''''
| type_species_authority = (Gow, 1977 [originally ''Thelegnathus oppressus''])
}}

'''''Thelerpeton''''' is an extinct [[Biology:Genus|genus]] of procolophonine procolophonid parareptile from middle [[Earth:Triassic|Triassic]] (early Anisian stage) deposits of Free State Province, {{wipe|South Africa}}. It is known from the [[Biology:Holotype|holotype]] BP/1/4538, a nearly complete [[Biology:Skull|skull]]. It was collected by the South African palaeontologist, James W. Kitching from Hugoskop in the Rouxville District and referred to subzone B of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone of the Burgersdorp Formation, [[Earth:Beaufort Group|Beaufort Group]] (Karoo Basin). It was first named by Sean P. Modesto and Ross J. Damiani in 2003 and the [[Biology:Type species|type species]] is ''Thelerpeton oppressus''. It was first assigned to a species of ''Thelegnathus'' (now considered to be a ''[[Biology:Nomen dubium|nomen dubium]]''), ''Thelegnathus oppressus''.<ref name=ThelegnathusND>{{cite journal |author1=Sean P. Modesto |author2=Ross J. Damiani |year=2003 |title=Taxonomic status of ''Thelegnathus browni'' Broom, a procolophonid reptile from the South African Triassic |journal=Annals of Carnegie Museum |volume=72 |issue=1 |pages=53–64 |doi=10.5962/p.215088 |s2cid=90233554 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name=Thelegnathus>{{cite journal |author=C. E. Gow |year=1977 |title=New Procolophonids from the Triassic ''Cynognathus'' Zone of South Africa |journal=Annals of the South African Museum |volume=72 |issue=6 |pages=109–124 }}</ref>

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[[Category:Procolophonines]]
[[Category:Anisian life]]
[[Category:Prehistoric reptile genera]]



{{Sourceattribution|Thelerpeton}}