Marmorerpeton wakei was an early salamander that lived during the mid-Jurassic, about 166 million years ago, in coastal lakes and rivers covering what is now the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
Growing to around 40cm long (~1’4″), it had a wide shallow skull with strong jaws similar to those of modern giant salamanders, suggesting it had a convergently similar sort of sit-and-wait ambush predator lifestyle – using suction feeding to pull prey into its mouth, then powerful bites to subdue it.
Although its body was fairly robustly built its anatomy was somewhat neotenic, retaining some late-stage larval features and staying fully aquatic into adulthood.
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