Batrachosauroides gotoi Estes 1969 (salamander)

Amphibia - Proteida - Batrachosauroididae

Full reference: R. Estes. 1969. The Batrachosauroididae and Scapherpetontidae, Late Cretaceous and early Cenozoic salamanders. Copeia 1969(2):225-234

Belongs to Batrachosauroides according to R. Estes 1969

See also Estes 1981

Sister taxon: Batrachosauroides dissimulans

Type specimen: PU 18012, a set of vertebrae. Its type locality is White Butte/Turtle Valley, which is in a Wasatchian terrestrial claystone in the Golden Valley Formation of North Dakota.

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at White Butte/Turtle Valley

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