Archaeotriton

Archaeotriton Temporal range: Chattian, ~19.5  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Urodela
Family:	Salamandridae
Genus:	† Archaeotriton von Meyer, 1859 [1]
Type species
†Archaeotriton basalticus Meyer, 1859 [2]

Archaeotriton is an extinct genus of salamanders belonging to the family Salamandridae. ^[1] It lived around 19.5 million years ago during the Oligocene epoch in the region of Central Europe in places such as Czech, Bohemia and Saxony. The is currently only identified species in the genus, A. basalticus. ^[3]

The holotype was uncovered in Varnsdorf and is now lost. ^[3]

See also

• List of prehistoric amphibians

References

1. "The Paleobiology Database" . Retrieved 13 January 2010.
2. "BioLib - Archaeotriton" . Retrieved 19 March 2010.
3. Böhme, M. "Revision of the cyprinids from the Early Oligocene of the České Středohoří Mountains, and the phylogenetic relations- hips of Protothymallus Laube 1901 (Teleostei, Cyprinidae, Gobioninae)" (PDF). Historia Naturalis. 63 (2–4): 175–194. ISSN   0036-5343.