What Did Salamanders Evolved From?

What Did Salamanders Evolved From? The most-diverse group of living salamanders, the Salamandroidea (a suborder of order Caudata), evolved near the end of the Jurassic Period—the oldest known fossil members of the lineage being Qinglongtriton and Beiyanerpeton. How do salamanders evolve? The results showed that the ancestor of all salamanders was metamorphic but that different