A Late Miocene occurrence of the extinct salamander Batrachosauroides (Caudata, Batrachosauroididae) and other new caudate fossils from Florida and Georgia, USA
Jason R. Bourque,
Edward L. Stanley,
Richard C. Hulbert
Abstract:Two partial vertebrae of the rare, large-bodied, aquatic salamander Batrachosauroides are reported from the Upper Miocene Love Bone Bed (late Clarendonian, ~10-9 Ma) Alachua County, Florida. They represent the latest occurrence of Batrachosauroides by 2.8-5.8 million years from previous records and are the latest account of the family Batrachosauroididae in the eastern United States, being either younger than or approximately coeval with fossils of Peratosauroides problematica from the Clarendonian San Pablo F… Show more
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