Salamandridae

Salamandridae is a family of salamanders consisting of true salamanders and newts. Salamandrids are distinguished from other salamanders by the lack of rib or costal grooves along the sides of their bodies and by their rough skin. Their skin is very granular because of the number of poison glands. They also lack nasolabial grooves. Most species of Salamandridae have moveable eyelids but lack lacrimal glands.

Salamandridae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
newtPBDB
Sits inside
UrodelaPBDB
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 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 4 of 215 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 215 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 11 of 215 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 21 of 215 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 103 of 215 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 215 occurrencesPleistocene — about 55 of 215 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 7 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 8 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 9 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 26 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 21 occurrences13–9.6 Mya — about 27 occurrences9.6–6.4 Mya — about 16 occurrences6.4–3.2 Mya — about 13 occurrences3.2–0 Mya — about 67 occurrences89.8 Mya11.7 ka96 Mya0 Mya

215 occurrences of Salamandridae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

215 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

41 formations

Upper Freshwater Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.44°N, 11.04°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.16°N, 10.11°EGaverdovsky — 44.61°N, 40.03°EEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.25°ESajovolgyi — 47.97°N, 19.69°ELaa — 48.42°N, 16.38°EQuercy Phosphorites — 44.27°N, 1.63°EFleming — 30.50°N, 95.00°WFleming — 30.68°N, 95.05°WVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°ETudela — 42.10°N, 1.55°WTudela — 42.06°N, 1.55°WBorgloon — 50.85°N, 4.82°EBorgloon — 50.87°N, 4.98°EMehama — 44.03°N, 123.00°WMehama — 44.52°N, 122.94°WJohn Day — 44.30°N, 120.83°WJohn Day — 45.00°N, 120.20°WUnterer Travertin — 50.97°N, 11.35°Efacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°ECapo Mannu dune complex — 40.03°N, 8.40°ESpilia — 41.15°N, 23.48°ELower Headon Beds — 50.63°N, 1.55°WShanwang — 36.52°N, 118.54°EFort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°WSan Antonio — 37.75°N, 122.13°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EBissekty — 42.12°N, 62.66°E

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The named rock units Salamandridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 138 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Salamandridae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Salamandridae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,613 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 127 sites for Salamandridae, 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

96 references

Each of the 215 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. 84 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 content1

Picture of Salamandridae

Credit
Patrick Coin ( Patrick Coin )
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Salamandridae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1825