Mesozoic terrestrial deposits containing diverse vertebrate assemblages are widely
distributed in Siberia (central and eastern part of Russia), Middle Asia (Kyrgyzstan …

Salamanders are an important group of living amphibians and model organisms for
understanding locomotion, development, regeneration, feeding, and toxicity in tetrapods …

Abstract The Mesozoic and Palaeocene record of lissamphibians (ie anurans, caudates,
gymnophionans and albanerpetontids) in North America is reviewed on the basis of over …

Metazoans display a tremendous diversity of developmental patterns, including complex life
cycles composed of morphologically disparate stages. In this regard, the evolution of life …

The origin of extant amphibians remains largely obscure, with only a few early Mesozoic
stem taxa known, as opposed to a much better fossil record from the mid-Jurassic on. In …

We report the discovery in Mesozoic continental “red beds” of Anoual Syncline, Morocco, of
the new Guelb el Ahmar (GEA) fossiliferous sites in the Bathonian Anoual Formation. They …

Abstract The terrestrial Yanliao Biota in northeastern China represents a Jurassic
biodiversity hotspot. Abundant and diverse fossils include the oldest known representatives …

1. By DC Blackburn & DB Wake (for full contact details, see the list after References). The
title of this contribution should be cited as “Class Amphibia Gray, 182. In: Zhang, Z.-Q.(Ed.) …

A Jurassic salamander, Beiyanerpeton jianpingensis (gen. et sp. nov.), from a recently found
site in western Liaoning Province, China is the earliest known record of Salamandroidea. As …

Lysorophians are a group of early tetrapods with extremely elongate trunks, reduced limbs,
and highly reduced skulls. Since the first discovery of this group, general similarities in …