Chelotriton

Chelotriton is an extinct genus of prehistoric salamanders that lived in Europe and Central Asia during the Neogene. It closely resembles the extant genera Tylototriton and Echinotriton.

Chelotriton

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SalamandridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Temnospondyli
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 5 of 35 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 29 of 35 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 35 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 35 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–8.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.9–8.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.1–7.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.2–6.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences6.4–5.5 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–2.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.9–2.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23.04 Mya3.6 Mya27.8 Mya2.1 Mya

35 occurrences of Chelotriton on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

35 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

8 formations

Upper Freshwater Molasse — 48.44°N, 11.04°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.16°N, 10.11°ELaa — 48.42°N, 16.38°EEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°EGaverdovsky — 44.61°N, 40.03°EVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°EEnspel — 50.61°N, 7.89°Efacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°E

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The named rock units Chelotriton has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chelotriton and its relatives

Miocene

Where Chelotriton and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

780 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Chelotriton, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

26 references

Each of the 35 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 14 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Chelotriton

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSalamandridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pomel 1853