Albanerpeton is an extinct genus of salamander-like albanerpetontid amphibian found in North America, Europe and Asia first appearing in Cretaceous-aged strata.

[1] Members of the genus had a robust head and neck which likely allowed them to actively burrow, characteristic of fossorial species, and they lived in a wide range of environments.

However, the genus was re-described by Gardner in 1999 after a large collection of jaws and frontals from Miocene fissure fills near La Grive-Saint-Alban in southeastern France was found.

[7] A. inexpectatum had many unique characteristics, distinct from salamanders and other amphibians (such as its feeding apparatus, dermal bones of the skull, and anterior cervical vertebrae) that Fox and Naylor suggested it be classified in its own order, Allocaudata, family, Albanerpetontidae, and genus, Albanerpeton, all of which were new at the time.

During the Late Cretaceous, Albanerpeton was widespread in North America, as well as in Europe (and was present in Asia if remains from the Khodzhakul Formation in Uzbekistan are included).

[1] Albanerpetontids are proposed to have been sit-and wait predators that fed on invertebrates via the use of a ballistic tongue similar to that used by chameleons and plethodontid salamanders.

Membership of species in the family is determined by diagnostic character states of the frontals and premaxillary synapomorphies, both of which can be used to further diagnose less inclusive clades in the genus.

[12] Features of the reconstructed skull consist of a robust, box-like unit composed of coossification of the parasphenoid, otic capsules, and occipital elements with no trace of fusion or sutural points of contact among these components.

[12] Overall, the robust construct of Albanerpeton's neurocranium is consistent with the theory that the genus was fossorial in nature, as the thickened and strengthened skull would have lent itself to burrowing.

Additionally, there are a pair of small, robust bony pedestals that are located ventrolaterally in front of the otic capsules, which likely served to brace the neurocranium against the palatal region and suspensorium.