 "Balanerpeton woodi" was discovered by Stanley Wood and is the earliest and most common tetrapod in the East Kirkton Limestone of the East Kirkton Quarry assemblage of terrestrial amphibians in Scotland.Characteristics of "Balanerpeton woodi" include the presence of large external nares, large interpterygoid vacuities (holes in the back of the palate), and an ear with a tympanic membrane and rod-like stapes.Numerous studies and research regarding ontogeny in non extant taxa have been oriented around this taxon.