Qinglongtriton

Qinglongtriton Temporal range: Oxfordian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Holotype
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Clade:	Caudata
Genus:	† Qinglongtriton Jia & Gao, 2016
Species:	†Q. gangouensis
Binomial name
†Qinglongtriton gangouensis Jia & Gao, 2016

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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.