Genus: Coloraderpeton VAUGHN, 1969
Etymology: In reference to the state of Colorado, where the specimen was found, and Greek, erpeton, "crawling creature."

Species: boilli VAUGHN, 1969
Etymology:

Holotype: CM 47683 (formerly UCLA VP 1689)

Locality: In the valley of Arkansas River, NW 1/4, NE 1/4, SW 1/4, Sec. 22, T49N, R10E, near the town of Howard, Fremont County, Central Colorado.

Horizon: Sangre de Cristo Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Probably Missourian, Lower Stephanian, upper Silesian Stage, Kasimovian Epoch? Late Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous).

Material: Dorsal vertebra.

Referred specimens.

CM 47684 (formerly UCLA VP 1690): Proximal part of a rib, preserved portions slightly displace along a fracture.
CM 47685 (formerly UCLA VP 1691): 3 partially articulated dorsal vertebrae, with many scattered, but some partially articulated, osteoderms on the same small piece of matrix.

CM 47686 (formerly UCLA VP 1692): Many disarticulated vertebrae and osteoderms.

CM 47687 (formerly UCLA VP 3551): Skull and partial skeleton.