Biology:Necturus krausei

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Short description: Extinct species of amphibian

Necturus krausei
Temporal range: Tiffanian
~61.7–56.8 Ma[1]
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Urodela
Family: Proteidae
Genus: Necturus
Species:
N. krausei
Binomial name
Necturus krausei
Naylor, 1978

Necturus krausei is an extinct species of mudpuppy salamanders from the Paleocene of Saskatchewan in Canada .[2][3] It is known from a set of vertebrae found in the Ravenscrag Formation.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "†Necturus krausei Naylor 1978 (mudpuppy)". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=110706. 
  2. Naylor, B. G. (1978). "The earliest known Necturus (Amphibia, Urodela), from the Paleocene Ravenscrag Formation of Saskatchewan". Journal of Herpetology 12 (4): 565–569. doi:10.2307/1563363. 
  3. J. Alan Holman (2006). Fossil salamander of North America. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253347327. https://books.google.com/books?id=jedqR3axP_MC&dq=Necturus+krausei&pg=PA82. 

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