Albanerpetontidae
| Albanerpetontidae Temporal range: Bathonian–Piacenzian | |
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| Life restoration of Albanerpeton | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | †Allocaudata |
| Family: | †Albanerpetontidae Fox and Naylor, 1982 |
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Albanerpetontidae is an extinct family of superficially salamander-like lissamphibians. Albanerpetontids include four genera – Albanerpeton, Anoualerpeton, Celtedens, and Wesserpeton – and between 10 and 20 known species, spanning about 160 million years from the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic to the end of the Pliocene, about 2.5 million years ago.[1] Albanerpetontids were long thought to be salamanders because of their small size and generalized body plans.[2] However, these features are now thought to be ancestral for lissamphibians and not indicative of close relationships between the two groups. One of the things that made them different from salamanders was that their skin was covered with bony scales.[3] Albanerpetontids are now recognized as a distinct clade of lissamphibians separate from the three living orders of amphibians – Anura (frogs), Caudata (salamanders), and Gymnophiona (caecilians). They are thought to be more closely related to frogs and salamanders than to caecilians.[4]
Taxonomy
Compiled from Paleofile.com and Mikko Haramo's websites.[5][6]
- Genus Wesserpeton Sweetman & Gardner 2013
- Species Wesserpeton evansae Sweetman & Gardner 2013
- Genus Anoualerpeton Gardner, Evans & Sigogneau-Russell 2003
- Species A. priscus Gardner, Evans & Sigogneau-Russell 2003
- Species A. unicus Gardner, Evans & Sigogneau-Russell 2003
- Genus Celtedens McGowan & Evans 1995 [Heteroclitotriton de Stefani 1903]
- Species C. megacephalus (Costa 1864) McGowan & Evans 1995 [Triton megacephalus Costa 1864; Heteroclitotriton megacephalus (Costa 1864) Kuhn 1914; Triturus megacephalus (Costa 1864) Kuhn 1960; Albanerpeton megacephalus (Costa 1864) Estes 1981]
- Species C. ibericus McGowan & Evans 1995
- Genus Albanerpeton Estes & Hoffstetter 1976
- Species A. arthridion Fox & Naylor 1982
- Clade "Gracile-snouted"
- Species A. gracilis Gardner 2000
- Species A. cifellii Gardner 1999
- Species A. galaktion Fox & Naylor 1982
- Clade "Robust-snouted"
- Species A. nexuosus Estes 1981
- Species A. pannonicus Venczel & Gardner 2005
- Species A. inexpectatum Estes & Hoffstetter 1976
References
- ↑ Gardner, J.D.; Böhme, M. (2008). Sankey, J.T. & Baszio, S., ed. Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages: Their Role in Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography. (PDF). Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. pp. 178–218. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- ↑ Duellman, W.E. & Trueb, L. (1994): Biology of amphibians. The Johns Hopkins University Press
- ↑ Wesserpeton evansae: making 'albanerpetontid' a household name
- ↑ Gardner, J. D. (2001). "Monophyly and affinities of albanerpetontid amphibians (Temnospondyli; Lissamphibia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 131 (3): 309–352. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb02240.x.
- ↑ Mikko's Phylogeny Archive Haaramo, Mikko (2007). "†Allocaudata – albanerpentonids". Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ↑ Paleofile.com (net, info) . "Taxonomic lists- Amphibia". Retrieved 30 December 2015.