Liaoxitriton Temporal range:
Early Cretaceous (early
Aptian)
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L. zhongjiani specimen IVPP V14071, Paleozoological Museum of China | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Urodela |
Suborder: | Cryptobranchoidea |
Genus: | †
Liaoxitriton Dong & Wang, 1998 |
Type species | |
†Liaoxitriton zhongjiani Dong & Wang, 1998
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Liaoxitriton is an extinct genus of prehistoric cryptobranchoid salamanders from the Early Cretaceous of China. It contains one species, L. zhongjiani, from the Aptian aged Yixian Formation. A second species, L. daohugouensis from the Middle/Late Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation, [1] was moved to the genus Neimengtriton in 2021 after a number of studies noted morphological differences between the two genera. [2]
Liaoxitriton Temporal range:
Early Cretaceous (early
Aptian)
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L. zhongjiani specimen IVPP V14071, Paleozoological Museum of China | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Urodela |
Suborder: | Cryptobranchoidea |
Genus: | †
Liaoxitriton Dong & Wang, 1998 |
Type species | |
†Liaoxitriton zhongjiani Dong & Wang, 1998
|
Liaoxitriton is an extinct genus of prehistoric cryptobranchoid salamanders from the Early Cretaceous of China. It contains one species, L. zhongjiani, from the Aptian aged Yixian Formation. A second species, L. daohugouensis from the Middle/Late Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation, [1] was moved to the genus Neimengtriton in 2021 after a number of studies noted morphological differences between the two genera. [2]