Czatkobatrachus

Czatkobatrachus is an extinct genus of Early Triassic (Olenekian) salientian amphibians. It was first described in 1998 based on fossils found in the Czatkowice 1 quarry in Poland.[1] It is, with Triadobatrachus, one of the two oldest known lissamphibians. More precisely, it is a member of Salientia; it is related to, but outside Anura, the taxon that includes all extant frogs. It is known only from the early Triassic of Poland. Its vertebral column may have been short as in other salientians, but the exact count is unknown. It had a short tail, and an elongated ilium.[2]

Czatkobatrachus
Temporal range: Olenekian
~251.3–247.2 Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Amphibia
Order:
Salientia
Family:
incertae sedis
Genus:
Czatkobatrachus

Evans & Borsuk−Białynicka, 1998
Type species
Czatkobatrachus polonicus
Evans & Borsuk−Białynicka, 1998

See also
  • Prehistoric amphibian
  • List of prehistoric amphibians

References
  1. Evans, S.E.; Borsuk−Białynicka, M. (1998). "A stem-group frog from the early Triassic of Poland". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 43: 573–580.
  2. Evans, S.E.; Borsuk−Białynicka, M. (2009). "The Early Triassic stem−frog Czatkobatrachus from Poland" (PDF). Palaeontologica Polonica. 65: 79–105. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-15. Retrieved 2012-12-11.


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