Extinct genus of amphibians
Pangerpeton is an extinct genus of salamanders. Its monotypic species is "Pangerpeton sinensis".
"Pangerpeton" is a metamorphosed, primitive salamander from the Late Jurassic Daohugou fossil bed near Wubaiding Village of Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province, China. It is part of the Yanliao Biota.
Yuan Wang and Susan E. Evans (2006) named this new taxon with a phylogenetic analysis of caudates at familial level including fossil taxa, such as "Marmorerpeton", "Karaurus", "Jeholotriton", "Chunerpeton", "Liaoxitriton", "Iridotriton", and "Valdotriton". The analysis placed "Pangerpeton" as a sister taxon to "Jeholotriton" from the equivalent fossil bed, and the two are close to the base of crown−group Urodela either just outside it or just within. In 2022 a more comprehensive phylogenetic analysis, that included additional outgroups such as frogs and "Triassurus", recovered "Pangerpeton sinensis" as a stem-group caudatan, just outside the crown group of modern salamanders. 
This Jurassic amphibian is characterized by its short trunk (only 14 presacrals) and short and wide head, giving a fat body shape, from which the genus name was derived ("Pang" means fat in Chinese).
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