Opisthotriton is an extinct genus of prehistoric salamanders that lived in North America between at least the Upper Cretaceous and the Paleocene.[2]
Opisthotriton | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Family: | †Batrachosauroididae |
Genus: | †Opisthotriton Auffenberg, 1961 |
Species | |
O. kayi Auffenberg, 1961 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Holman, J. Alan (2006). Fossil salamanders of North America. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34732-9. Retrieved 13 August 2010.
- ^ "The Plaeobiology Database - Opisthotriton". Retrieved 13 August 2010.