Pangerpeton
Name:
Pangerpeton.
Phonetic: Pan-ger-pe-ton.
Named By: Y. Wang & S. E. Evans -
2006.
Classification: Chordata, Amphibia, Urodela,
Cryptobranchoidea.
Species: P. sinensis (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Preserved length of holotype 4.63
centimetres long (snout to first two vertebrae of tail).
Known locations: China, Liaoning Province.
Time period: Late Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Almost complete skeleton,
lacking the tail.
Pangerpeton is a species of small short bodied salamander that lived in China during the late Jurassic.
Further reading
- A new short-bodied salamander from the Upper Jurassic/Lower
Cretaceous of China. - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
51(1):127-130. - Y. Wang & S. E. Evans -
2006.
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