Triturus

Triturus is a genus of newts comprising the crested and the marbled newts, which are found from Great Britain through most of continental Europe to westernmost Siberia, Anatolia, and the Caspian Sea region. Their English names refer to their appearance: marbled newts have a green–black colour pattern, while the males of crested newts, which are dark brown with a yellow or orange underside, develop a conspicuous jagged seam on their back and tail during their breeding phase.

Triturus

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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 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 77 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 77 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 77 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 26 of 77 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 77 occurrencesPleistocene — about 38 of 77 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 38 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

77 occurrences of Triturus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

77 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

6 formations

Upper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.25°ESajovolgyi — 47.97°N, 19.69°EBorgloon — 50.85°N, 4.82°EBorgloon — 50.87°N, 4.98°EUnterer Travertin — 50.97°N, 11.35°EGaverdovsky — 44.61°N, 40.02°E

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The named rock units Triturus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 61 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Triturus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Triturus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

843 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Triturus, 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

28 references

Each of the 77 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. 16 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 content2

Picture of Triturus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Triturus cristatus · FMNH:Amphibians and Reptiles:84926

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1815