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In 1995, a single five foot long embolomere amphibian fossil was found in sandstone, near the margin of the Western Kentucky Coal Field. In the Pennsylvanian, shallow seas existed periodically, but the landscape was mostly swampy land. As the supercontinent Pangaea took shape, Kentucky was situated on the equator. Grasses and cordaite trees ...
It is endemic to the United States, where it is distributed throughout the Cumberland Plateau in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. Its natural habitat is temperate forest . It was long considered to be both an isolated western population and a unique yellow-spotted color morph of the Wehrle's salamander ( P. wehrlei ), but a study published ...
The black mountain salamander is found in an area of the Appalachian Mountains covering about 20,000 square kilometres (4,900,000 acres). Its range includes eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia, and eastern Tennessee. It is found at heights varying from 300 to 1,220 metres (980 to 4,000 ft) above sea level.
(state amphibian) Ambystoma maculatum: 2010 [19] American bullfrog (state frog) Rana catesbeiana: 2010 [20] Oklahoma: American bullfrog: Rana catesbeiana: 1997 [21] Pennsylvania: Eastern hellbender: Cryptobranchus alleganiensis: 2019 [22] South Carolina: Spotted salamander: Ambystoma maculatum: 1999 [23] Tennessee: Tennessee cave salamander ...
Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. New York, USA; AmphibiaWeb. Information on amphibian biology and conservation. (2012). "List of Amphibians in the United States (database query web application)". Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb
The Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park located at the border between Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, centered on the Cumberland Gap, a natural break in the Appalachian Mountains. The park lies in parts of Bell and Harlan counties in Kentucky, Claiborne County in Tennessee, and Lee County in
We asked University of Kentucky herpetologist Dr. Steven Price what snakes are up to this time of year around the commonwealth, including what might draw them near your home and convince them to stay.
The Cumberland Plateau is a deeply dissected plateau, with topographic relief commonly of about 400 feet (120 metres), and frequent sandstone outcroppings and bluffs.. At Kentucky's Pottsville Escarpment, which is the transition from the Cumberland Plateau to the Bluegrass in the north and the Pennyrile in the south, there are many spectacular cliffs, gorges, rockhouses, natural bridges, and ...