Liaoxitriton
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| Liaoxitriton Temporal range: Early Cretaceous (early Aptian) | |
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| L. zhongjiani specimen IVPP V14071, Paleozoological Museum of China | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Clade: | Caudata |
| Genus: | †Liaoxitriton Dong & Wang, 1998 |
| Type species | |
| †Liaoxitriton zhongjiani Dong & Wang, 1998 | |
Liaoxitriton is an extinct genus of salamanders from the Early Cretaceous of China. It contains one species, L. zhongjiani, from the Aptian aged Yixian Formation. A second species, L. daohugouensis from the Middle/Late Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation,[1] was moved to the genus Neimengtriton in 2021 after a number of studies noted morphological differences between the two genera.[2]
