Abstract: Based on well—preserved impressions of articulated skeletons, a new urodele, Jeholotriton paradoxus gen. et sp. nov., is described from the lower part of the Yixian Fomation (Early Cretaceous), Nei Mongol, China. The discovery of' Jeholotriton documents the third Mesozoic salamander from China. Jeholotriton differs from other early caudates in having an anteromedially directed ramus of pterygoid that connects to the skull table rather than the maxilla. It is also characterized by having widely separated vomers, longitudinal vomerine tooth row, large nasals with no anterior notch, frontal with no anterolateral extension, short and incomplete maxillary arcade with no quadratojugal, prominent alary process of premaxilla, short maxilla, fused and dentigerous coronoid--prearticular, 17 presacrals, amphicoelous vertebrae, short transverse processes of the vertebrae, proximally expanded unicapitace ribs, and phalangeal formula of 2—2—3—2 for manus and 2—2—3 3—2 for pes.