Chunerpeton

Chunerpeton Temporal range: Middle Jurassic
Chunerpeton tianyiensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Subclass:	Lissamphibia
Order:	Caudata/Urodela
Suborder:	Cryptobranchoidea
Family:	Cryptobranchidae
Genus:	Chunerpeton Gao & Shubin, 2003
Species
C. tianyiensis Gao & Shubin, 2003 (type)

Chunerpeton is an extinct genus of salamander from the ?Late Jurassic Daohugou Beds in Ningcheng County, Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia), China.^[1]

It lived with other primitive salamanders, e.g. Jeholotriton paradoxus Wang 2000, Liaoxitriton daohugouensis Wang 2004, and Pangerpeton sinensis Wang & Evans 2006 of the same age.

The strata containing these fossil salamanders, the Daohugou Beds, is controversial in its age, ranging from Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous.

References

• Herpetology, Third Edition: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles by Laurie J. Vitt and Janalee P. Caldwell
• Fins into Limbs: Evolution, Development, and Transformation by Brian K. Hall

1. ^ Ke-Qin Gao & Neil H. Shubin (27 March 2003). "Earliest known crown-group salamanders". Nature 422 (6930): 424–428. doi:10.1038/nature01491. 

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