Qinglongtriton
| Qinglongtriton Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Clade: | Caudata |
| Genus: | † Jia & Gao, 2016 |
| Species: | †Q. gangouensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Qinglongtriton gangouensis Jia & Gao, 2016
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Qinglongtriton is an extinct genus of salamanders from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian age) of what is now Hebei, China. It contains one species, Q. gangouensis, which is known from numerous adult and juvenile specimens collected from the Tiaojishan Formation. It was closely related to the salamander Beiyanerpeton from the same formation; both of these were at first included in Salamandroidea, the suborder containing the majority of modern salamanders,[1][2] but later analyses have sometimes placed them as stem group salamanders instead.[3]
References
- ^ Gao, K.-Q.; Shubin, N. H. (2012). "Late Jurassic salamandroid from western Liaoning, China". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (15): 5767–5772. Bibcode:2012PNAS..109.5767G. doi:10.1073/pnas.1009828109. PMC 3326464. PMID 22411790.
- ^ Jia, J.; Gao, K.-Q. (2016). "A New Basal Salamandroid (Amphibia, Urodela) from the Late Jurassic of Qinglong, Hebei Province, China". PLOS ONE. 11 (5): e0153834. Bibcode:2016PLoSO..1153834J. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0153834. PMC 4856324. PMID 27144770.
- ^ Jones, M. E. H.; Benson, R. B. J.; Skutschas, P.; Hill, L.; Panciroli, E.; Schmitt, A. D.; Walsh, S. A.; Evans, S. E. (2022). "Middle Jurassic fossils document an early stage in salamander evolution". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119 (30): e2114100119. Bibcode:2022PNAS..11914100J. doi:10.1073/pnas.2114100119. PMC 9335269. PMID 35858401.