Albanerpeton
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| Albanerpeton Temporal range: Cretaceous to Late Pliocene | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | "Amphibia" (wide sense) |
| Order: | †Allocaudata |
| Family: | †Albanerpetontidae |
| Genus: | †Albanerpeton Estes and Hoffstetter, 1976 |
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Albanerpeton is an extinct genus of salamander-like lissamphibian found in North America and Europe. Members of the genus had a robust head and neck which likely allowed them to actively burrow, and they lived in a wide range of environments. This genus of amphibian was the last of its order, surviving until the late Pliocene in southern Europe, and likely went extinct when the region developed its present Mediterranean-type climate.
Phylogeny
Cladogram from Gardner (2002):[1]
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References
- ↑ Gardner, J. D. (2002). "Monophyly and intra-generic relationships of Albanerpeton (Lissamphibia; Albanerpetontidae)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22: 12–13. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2002)022[0012:MAIGRO]2.0.CO;2.
- Delfino, M. and Sala, B. 2007. Late Pliocene Albanerpetontidae (Lissamphibia) from Italy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):716–719
- Fossil Salamanders of North America (Life of the Past) by J. Alan Holman
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