Necturus krausei
Appearance
Necturus krausei Temporal range: Tiffanian
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Urodela |
Family: | Proteidae |
Genus: | Necturus |
Species: | †N. krausei
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Binomial name | |
†Necturus krausei Naylor, 1978
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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
[edit]- ^ a b "†Necturus krausei Naylor 1978 (mudpuppy)". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ 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. JSTOR 1563363.
- ^ J. Alan Holman (2006). Fossil salamander of North America. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253347327.