Chunerpeton
Chunerpeton tianyiensis Temporal range: Middle or Late Jurassic,
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Fossil specimen of C. tianyiensis, Beijing Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Clade: | Caudata |
Order: | Urodela |
Suborder: | Cryptobranchoidea |
Genus: | †Chunerpeton Gao & Shubin, 2003 |
Species: | †C. tianyiensis
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Binomial name | |
†Chunerpeton tianyiensis & Shubin, 2003
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Chunerpeton tianyiensis is an extinct species of salamander from the Late Jurassic Daohugou Beds in Ningcheng County, Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia), China. It is the only species classified under the genus Chunerpeton.[1] It was a small animal measuring 18 cm in length.[2] It was neotenic, with the retention of external gills into adulthood. In the original description it was placed in Cryptobranchidae, which contains modern giant salamanders.[1] A redescription published in 2020 found it to be a stem-group caudatan outside the crown group of modern salamanders.[3] A 2021 study found it to be a member of Cryptobranchoidea outside of Cryptobranchidae.[4]
It lived with other primitive salamanders, e.g. Jeholotriton paradoxus Wang 2000, Wang 2004, and Pangerpeton sinensis Wang & Evans 2006 of the same age.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Ke-Qin Gao & Neil H. Shubin (27 March 2003). "Earliest known crown-group salamanders". Nature. 422 (6930): 424–428. Bibcode:2003Natur.422..424G. doi:10.1038/nature01491. PMID 12660782. S2CID 4411650.
- ^ "Mesohippus - Facts and Pictures". 11 October 2016.
- ^ Rong, Yu-Fen; Vasilyan, Davit; Dong, Li-Ping; Wang, Yuan (2020-12-08). "Revision of Chunerpeton tianyiense (Lissamphibia, Caudata): Is it a cryptobranchid salamander?". Palaeoworld. 30 (4): 708–723. doi:10.1016/j.palwor.2020.12.001. ISSN 1871-174X.
- ^ Jia, Jia; Anderson, Jason S.; Gao, Ke-Qin (2021-07-23). "Middle Jurassic stem hynobiids from China shed light on the evolution of basal salamanders". iScience. 24 (7): 102744. Bibcode:2021iSci...24j2744J. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2021.102744. ISSN 2589-0042. PMC 8264161. PMID 34278256.
Further reading[]
- Herpetology, Third Edition: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles by Laurie J. Vitt and Janalee P. Caldwell
- Fins into Limbs: Evolution, Development, and Transformation by Brian K. Hall
- Cryptobranchoidea
- Prehistoric amphibian genera
- Jurassic amphibians of Asia
- Mesozoic salamanders
- Fossil taxa described in 2003
- Prehistoric amphibian stubs
- Jurassic animal stubs