Albanerpeton
| Albanerpeton Temporal range: Cretaceous to Early Pleistocene | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| 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 into the Early Pleistocene (Gelasian) of northern Italy [1] and likely became extinct when the region developed its present Mediterranean-type climate.
Phylogeny
Cladogram from Gardner (2002):[2]
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References
- ↑ Villa, Andrea; Blain, Hugues-Alexandre; Delfino, Massimo (2018). "The Early Pleistocene herpetofauna of Rivoli Veronese (Northern Italy) as evidence for humid and forested glacial phases in the Gelasian of Southern Alps". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 490: 393–403. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.11.016. ISSN 0031-0182.
- ↑ 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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