Iridotriton

Iridotriton Temporal range: Late Jurassic
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Urodela
Suborder:	Cryptobranchoidea
Genus:	†Iridotriton Evans et al., 2005[1]
Type species
†Iridotriton hechti Evans et al., 2005[1]

Iridotriton is an extinct genus of prehistoric salamander^[1][2] known from a fossil found in stratigraphic zone 6 of the late Jurassic Morrison Formation^[3] in the Dinosaur National Monument.^[4] One species has been described, Iridotriton hechti.^[5] It is likely a member of Cryptobranchoidea.^[6]

See also

• Prehistoric amphibian
  • List of prehistoric amphibians
• Paleobiota of the Morrison Formation

References

1. Evans, S. E.; Lally, C.; Chure, D. C.; Elder, A.; Maisano, J. A. (2005). "A Late Jurassic salamander (Amphibia: Caudata) from the Morrison Formation of North America" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 143 (4): 599–616. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00159.x.
2. Gao, K. -Q.; Shubin, N. H. (2012). "Late Jurassic salamandroid from western Liaoning, China". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (15): 5767–72. Bibcode:2012PNAS..109.5767G. doi:10.1073/pnas.1009828109. PMC 3326464. PMID 22411790.
3. Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. pp. 327-329.
4. "Rainbow Park microsite". The Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
5. "†Iridotriton Evans et al. 2005". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
6. Jia, Jia; Anderson, Jason S.; Gao, Ke-Qin (2021-07-23). "Middle Jurassic stem hynobiids from China shed light on the evolution of basal salamanders". iScience. 24 (7): 102744. Bibcode:2021iSci...24j2744J. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2021.102744. ISSN 2589-0042. PMC 8264161. PMID 34278256.