Celtedens
Temporal range:
Fossil of Celtedens megacephalus
Holotype specimen of Celtedens ibericus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Allocaudata
Family: Albanerpetontidae
Genus: Celtedens
McGowan and Evans, 1995
Species
  • C. megacephalus (Costa, 1864 originallyTriton megacephalus) (type)
  • C. ibericus McGowan and Evans, 1995

Celtedens is an extinct genus of albanerpetontid amphibian from the Early Cretaceous of England, Spain, Sweden and Italy, and the Late Jurassic of Portugal.[1][2]

Taxonomy

Phylogeny

From Daza et al. 2020.[5]

 Anoualerpeton

 

Celtedens

Uña taxon

    

Wesserpeton

    

Albanerpeton arthridion

    

Albanerpeton gracilis + Albanerpeton galaktion

    

Albanerpeton cifellii

    

Yaksha

    

Shirerpeton

    

Albanerpeton nexuosum

    

Albanerpeton pannonicum

Paskapoo sp

Albanerpeton inexpectatum

References

  1. Gardner, J.D.; Evans, S.E.; Sigogneau-Russel, D. (2003). "New albanerpetontid amphibians from the Early Cretaceous of Morocco and Middle Jurassic of England" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 48 (2): 301–319.
  2. Pereira, T., Mateus O., & Moreno-Azanza M. (2018). Fossil amphibians from Portugal. 1st Palaeontological Virtual Congress. online. https://docentes.fct.unl.pt/omateus/files/pereira_et_al_2018_amphibians_portugal.pdf
  3. Guillaume, Alexandre R. D.; Natário, Carlos; Mateus, Octávio; Moreno-Azanza, Miguel (2023-04-03). "Plasticity in the morphology of the fused frontals of Albanerpetontidae (Lissamphibia; Allocaudata)". Historical Biology. 35 (4): 537–554. doi:10.1080/08912963.2022.2054712. ISSN 0891-2963.
  4. Rees, Jan; Evans, Susan E. (2002-06-01). "Amphibian remains from the Lower Cretaceous of Sweden: the first Scandinavian record of the enigmatic group Albanerpetontidae". GFF. 124 (2): 87–91. doi:10.1080/11035890201242087. ISSN 1103-5897.
  5. Daza, Juan D.; Stanley, Edward L.; Bolet, Arnau; Bauer, Aaron M.; Arias, J. Salvador; Čerňanský, Andrej; Bevitt, Joseph J.; Wagner, Philipp; Evans, Susan E. (2020-11-06). "Enigmatic amphibians in mid-Cretaceous amber were chameleon-like ballistic feeders". Science. 370 (6517): 687–691. Bibcode:2020Sci...370..687D. doi:10.1126/science.abb6005. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 33154135. S2CID 226254862.
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