Palaeontologists identify new Jurassic amphibian
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 14:10
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A group of Russian and German palaeontologists have described a previously unknown genus and species of prehistoric salamanders. The new amphibian is named Egoria malashichevi—in honor of Yegor Malashichev a talented scientist and associate professor of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology at St Petersburg University, who passed away at the end of 2018.