Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Alternative combinations: Albanerpeton megacephalus, Triton megacephalus
Full reference: O. G. Costa. 1864. Paleontologia del Regno di Napoli. Parte III [Paleontology of the Kingdom of Naples. Part III]. Atti dell'Accademia Pontaniana 8:1-192
Belongs to Celtedens according to J. D. Gardner and M. Böhme 2008
See also Barbera and Macuglia 1988, Barbera and Macuglia 1991, Costa 1864, D'Erasmo 1914, Estes 1981, Evans and McGowan 2002, Gardner 2000, McGowan 2002, McGowan and Ensom 1997, McGowan and Evans 1995 and Venczel and Gardner 2005
Sister taxon: Celtedens ibericus
Type specimen: M 542, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Civita di Pietraroja (upper plattenkalk), which is in an Albian basinal (carbonate) mudstone/wackestone in Italy.
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Italy (1 collection), the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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