This animal is in its defensive posture, called an Unken reflex, which shows it perceived it was in danger before it died :(.
A slight distinction between torosa and granulosa is that in the unken reflex, torosa's tail does not curve towards its head whereas in granulosa the tail tip curves toward the head and sometimes curls. Examples can be seen here: http://www.californiaherps.com/salamanders/pages/t.t.torosa.html and here: http://www.californiaherps.com/salamanders/pages/t.granulosa.html.
Didn't get a good pic of the orange under its eyes, but based on the position of its tail, I wonder if this is T. torosa. Kept ID to genus level only.
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url: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68574639