Urupia

Urupia monstrosa
Temporal range: Bathonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Urodela
Genus: Urupia
Skutschas & Krasnolutskii, 2011
Species: U. monstrosa
Binomial name
Urupia monstrosa
Skutschas & Krasnolutskii, 2011

Urupia is an extinct genus of salamander which existed in what is now Russia during the Bathonian epoch of the Middle Jurassic. It was described by P. P. Skutschas and S. A. Krasnolutskii in 2011, and the type species is U. monstrosa.[1]

References

  1. P. P. Skutschas & S. A. Krasnolutskii (2011). "A new genus and species of basal salamanders from the Middle Jurassic of western Siberia, Russia" (PDF). Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 315 (2): 167–175.


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