Urupia monstrosa Skutschas and Krasnolutskii 2011 (salamander)

Amphibia - Caudata

Full reference: P. P. Skutschas and S. A. Krasnolutskii. 2011. A new genus and species of basal salamanders from the Middle Jurassic of western Siberia, Russia. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 315(2):167-175

Belongs to Urupia according to P. P. Skutschas and S. A. Krasnolutskii 2011

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: ZIN PH 1/144, a set of vertebrae (partial atlas). Its type locality is Berezovsk Quarry, which is in a Bathonian fluvial claystone in the Itat Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at Berezovsk Quarry

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