Dendrerpeton is an extinct genus of amphibian. They are generally found associated with hollows of the Lepidodendron

Lepidodendron

Lepidodendron is an extinct genus of primitive, vascular, arborescent plant related to the Lycopsids . It was part of the coal forest flora. They sometimes reached heights of over , and the trunks were often over in diameter, and thrived during the Carboniferous period...

 and Sigillaria

Sigillaria

Sigillaria is a genus of extinct, spore-bearing, arborescent plants which flourished in the Late Carboniferous period but dwindled to extinction in the early Permian period. It was a lycopodiophyte, and is related to the lycopsids, or club-mosses, but even more closely to quillworts, as was its...

 tree genera, for which their fossils are contained within. These fossils are disarticulate

Articulate

Articulate may refer to:*Articulate *Articulate sign*Articulate sound*Joint, also known as articulation*Word modified by an article...

d and flattened providing poor specimens. In this species the stape

Stape

Stape is a hamlet and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. It is in the North Riding Forest Park, 4 miles north of Pickering. There is an activity centre, known as the Ken Ather Outdoor Centre, built for use by pupils of Joseph Rowntree school....

s was used as a support structure for the ear than for hearing as in later tetropods.

The specimens are generally 100 cm, large otic notch

Otic notch

Otic notches are invagination in the posterior margin of the skull roof, one behind each orbit. Such notches are found in labyrinthodonts and some of their immediate ancestors, but not their reptilian descendants...

in the back of the skull .