Archaeotriton Knowpia

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:	Caudata
Family:	Salamandridae
Genus:	Archaeotriton; von Meyer, 1859
Species
	A. basalticus Meyer, 1859;

Archaeotriton is an extinct genus of prehistoric salamanders.^[1] The only identified species in the genus is A. basalticus, which lived during the Oligocene in Central Europe.^[3]

References edit

^ ^a ^b "The Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 13 January 2010.
^ "BioLib - Archaeotriton". Retrieved 19 March 2010.
^ 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.