INTEGBI 175LF Lecture 4: Salamander Families, cont.
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Lacatriton : my a) ( in found urodelans. Drodelans : in pyrockshl (volcanic fossil bed basal to extant dadei p lesser gills larval pondt stream eumovphs from mid - jurassic in china. , 40mg older family : chmerpeton : mid - than pmk. Small eel - like w/ tiny forelimbs no hind limbs or pelvic girdle , lack eyelids lack premax teeth. Similar external gills , non . pedicellate teeth. Ecology : aq burrowers reducedlab sent slow - moving hp maxillae larvae neoteric to obligatorily aquatic fossils : basal had hind limbs late jurassic oldest in n. am . id from china siren. : cretaceous as -90mm , v. large possibly in gondwana , Morphology : largest salamanders ( up incomplete metamorphosis : no eyelids lateral line retain maxillae. 1 fossils : oldest extant : mid . Am : paleocene - eocene gbmyd div . from hynobiids by mid - j bigger range before nya) (34 - 2. 5.