Beiyanerpeton jianpingensis Gao and Shubin 2012 (salamander)

Amphibia - Caudata - Urodela

Full reference: K. -Q. Gao and N. H. Shubin. 2012. Late Jurassic salamandroid from western Liaoning, China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109(15):5767-5772

Belongs to Beiyanerpeton according to K. -Q. Gao and N. H. Shubin 2012

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PKUP V0601, a skeleton (a nearly complete skeleton exposed in ventral view). Its type locality is Guancaishan, near Jianping, which is in an Oxfordian lacustrine - large ash in the Tiaojishan Formation of China.

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at Guancaishan, near Jianping

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