Lissotriton

Lissotriton is a genus of newts native to Europe and parts of Asia Minor. As most other newts, they are aquatic as larvae and during breeding time but live in terrestrial, humid environments over the rest of the season.

Lissotriton

Ian Kirk from Broadstone, Dorset, UK · CC BY 2.0 · 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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 10 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 16 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 16 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.6–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.2–7.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.5–6.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.8–6.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.2–5.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.5–4.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.1–3.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.4–2.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.7–2.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.0–1.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.4–683 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences683 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka20.5 Mya0 Mya

16 occurrences of Lissotriton on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

16 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

4 formations

facies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°EColombacci — 44.22°N, 11.77°EGaverdovsky — 44.61°N, 40.02°E

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The named rock units Lissotriton has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lissotriton and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lissotriton and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

283 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Lissotriton, 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

12 references

Each of the 16 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. 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 Lissotriton

Credit
Ian Kirk from Broadstone, Dorset, UK
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lissotriton was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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. Bell 1839