Salamander found in China oldest of its kind
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 07:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(PhysOrg.com) -- Six salamander specimens were found in an ancient dry lakebed in China recently and now the team of Ke-Qin Gao from Peking University and Neil H. Shubinb of the University of Chicago has identified them as the oldest Salamandroidea specimens ever found. As they write in their paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the specimens are believed to be approximately 157 million years old.