Salamandra salamandra

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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.

Also called

Fire salamanderPBDB

Sits inside

SalamandraPBDB

Diet

carnivorePBDB, for Temnospondyli

Life habit

amphibiousPBDB, for Temnospondyli

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli

Environment

brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

• Miocene14%
• Pleistocene86%

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.

Where Salamandra salamandra and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Anguis fragilis5 sites
• Bufo bufo5 sites
• Hyla arborea4 sites
• Rana temporaria4 sites
• Coronella girondica3 sites
• Lacerta3 sites
• Lacertidae3 sites
• Pelodytes punctatus3 sites
• Pliomys3 sites
• Triturus3 sites
• Vipera3 sites
• Alytes2 sites
• Alytes obstetricans2 sites
• Anura2 sites
• Apodemus sylvaticus2 sites
• Bufo calamita2 sites
• Colubrinae2 sites
• Discoglossus2 sites
• Lissotriton2 sites
• Microtus2 sites
• Myotis2 sites
• Natrix maura2 sites
• Natrix natrix2 sites
• Ophidia2 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Salamandra salamandra, 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.

• Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic approach to the upper Pleistocene site of Artazu VII (Arrasate, northern Iberian Peninsula) using small vertebratesSuarez-Bilbao et al., 2017 · Ameghiniana · journal article1
• Middle to Late Pleistocene herpetofauna from Scladina and Sous-Saint-Paul caves (Namur, Belgium)Blain et al., 2014 · Comptes Rendus Palevol · journal article1
• Amphibians and Squamates from the Miocene of Felsőtárkány Basin, N-HungaryVenczel and Hír, 2013 · Palaeontographica, Abteilung A: Paleozoology – Stratigraphy · journal article1
• A very diverse amphibian and reptile assemblage from the late Middle Pleistocene of the Sierra de Atapuerca (Sima del Elefante, Burgos, Northwestern Spain)Blain et al., 2011 · Geobios · journal article1
• A New Species of Water Vole from the Early Pleistocene of Southern EuropeCuenca-Bescós et al., 2010 · Acta Palaeontologica Polonica · journal article1
• Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in Britain and EuropeHolman, 1998 · Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics · book1
• Pleistocene vertebrate faunas of HungaryJanossy, 1986 · Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, 8. Elsevier, Amsterdam · book/book chapter1

Each of the 7 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.

What may have been alongside itSalamandra through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758