Triassurus Temporal range: Late Triassic,
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Clade: | Caudata |
Family: | †Triassuridae Ivakhnenko, 1978 |
Genus: | †Triassurus Ivakhnenko, 1978 |
Species: | †T. sixtelae
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Binomial name | |
†Triassurus sixtelae Ivakhnenko, 1978
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Triassurus is an extinct genus of amphibian, and the oldest member of Caudata (salamanders and close relalatives). It is known from the Middle to Upper Triassic (Ladinian-Carnian) aged Madygen Formation in Kyrgyzstan.[1][2] The type species is T. sixtelae.[1]