Batropetes

Batropetes; Temporal range: Early Permian
	Restoration of Batropetes fritschi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subclass:	†Lepospondyli
Order:	†Microsauria
Family:	†Brachystelechidae
Genus:	†Batropetes; Carroll and Gaskill, 1971
Species
	†B. appelensis Glienke, 2015; †B. fritschi Carroll, 1991 (type); †B. niederkirchensis Glienke, 2013; †B. palatinus Glienke, 2015
Synonyms
	Brachystelechus Carroll and Gaskill, 1978; Petrobates Credner, 1890;

Batropetes is an extinct genus of brachystelechid recumbirostran "microsaur". Batropetes lived during the Sakmarian stage^[a] 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: B. niederkirchensis, B. palatinus, and B. appelensis.

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