| Celtedens Temporal range:
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| Fossil of Celtedens megacephalus | |
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| Holotype specimen of Celtedens ibericus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | †Allocaudata |
| Family: | †Albanerpetontidae |
| Genus: | †Celtedens McGowan and Evans, 1995 |
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Celtedens is an extinct genus of albanerpetontid amphibian from the Early Cretaceous of England, Spain, Sweden and Italy, and the Late Jurassic of Portugal.12
Taxonomy
- †Celtedens ibericus McGowan and Evans 1995 La Huérguina Formation, Spain, Barremian
- †Celtedens megacephalus Costa 1864 Lulworth Formation, United Kingdom, Berriasian Pietraroja Plattenkalk, Italy, Albian
- Indeterminate remains attributed to the genus are also known from the Late Jurassic Alcobaça Formation and Lourinhã Formation of Portugal,3 as well as the earliest Cretaceous (Berriasian) of Sweden.4
Phylogeny
From Daza et al. 2020.5
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References
References
- Gardner, J.D.; Evans, S.E.; Sigogneau-Russel, D. (2003). "New albanerpetontid amphibians from the Early Cretaceous of Morocco and Middle Jurassic of England" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 48 (2): 301–319.
- Pereira, T., Mateus O., & Moreno-Azanza M. (2018). Fossil amphibians from Portugal. 1st Palaeontological Virtual Congress. online. https://docentes.fct.unl.pt/omateus/files/pereira_et_al_2018_amphibians_portugal.pdf
- Guillaume, Alexandre R. D.; Natário, Carlos; Mateus, Octávio; Moreno-Azanza, Miguel (2023-04-03). "Plasticity in the morphology of the fused frontals of Albanerpetontidae (Lissamphibia; Allocaudata)". Historical Biology. 35 (4): 537–554. Bibcode:2023HBio...35..537G. doi:10.1080/08912963.2022.2054712. ISSN 0891-2963.
- Rees, Jan; Evans, Susan E. (2002-06-01). "Amphibian remains from the Lower Cretaceous of Sweden: the first Scandinavian record of the enigmatic group Albanerpetontidae". GFF. 124 (2): 87–91. Bibcode:2002GFF...124...87R. doi:10.1080/11035890201242087. ISSN 1103-5897.
- Daza, Juan D.; Stanley, Edward L.; Bolet, Arnau; Bauer, Aaron M.; Arias, J. Salvador; Čerňanský, Andrej; Bevitt, Joseph J.; Wagner, Philipp; Evans, Susan E. (2020-11-06). "Enigmatic amphibians in mid-Cretaceous amber were chameleon-like ballistic feeders". Science. 370 (6517): 687–691. Bibcode:2020Sci...370..687D. doi:10.1126/science.abb6005. hdl:11336/141945. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 33154135. S2CID 226254862.