Bishara backa Nessov 1997 (salamander)

Amphibia - Caudata

Full reference: L. A. Nessov. 1997. Nemorskiye Pozvonochnyye Melovogo Perioda Severnoy Yevrazii [Cretaceous Non-Marine Vertebrates of Northern Eurasia] 1-218

Belongs to Bishara according to M. A. Shishkin 2000

See also Gardner and Averianov 1998 and Gardner and Böhme 2008

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CCMGE 240/12177, a set of vertebrae (incomplete atlantal centrum). Its type locality is Baibishe, which is in a Santonian/Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Bostobe Formation of Kazakhstan.

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at Baibishe

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