Liaoxitriton
Extinct genus of amphibians / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Daohugou Beds,[1] was moved to the genus Neimengtriton in 2021 after a number of studies noted morphological differences between the two genera.[2]
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Liaoxitriton | |
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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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