Karaurus
| Karaurus | |
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| Fossil skeleton | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Clade: | Caudata |
| Family: | †Karauridae |
| Genus: | †Karaurus Ivachnenko, 1978 |
| Type species | |
| †Karaurus sharovi Ivachnenko, 1978
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Karaurus (meaning head-tail) is an extinct genus of
stem-group salamander (Caudata) from the Middle to Late Jurassic (Callovian–Kimmeridgian) Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan
. It is one of the oldest salamanders known.
Life restoration
Karaurus was large for a Jurassic salamander, about 20 centimetres (7.9 in) long, and very similar anatomically to modern salamanders. Karaurus is thought to have fed using
neotenic.[2]
References
- ^ "†Karaurus Ivachnenko 1978". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ .
- PMID 35858401.