Amphibamus is a genus of amphibamid temnospondyl amphibians from the Carboniferous (middle Pennsylvanian) of North America.Vertebrate Palaeontology by Michael J. BentonThe Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth, Second Edition by Stephen Jay Gould This animal is considered to have been close to the ancestry of modern amphibians. Its length was about .Temnospondyli
The generic name Amphibamus alludes to the two modes of locomotion of the animal, swimming with its oar-shaped tail, and crawling because of its long fingers with claws, from Greek ἀμφί (amphí) "both" and -βάμων (-bámōn) "that goes" or βᾶμα (bâma) "leg".
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