Eopelobates
| Eopelobates | |
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| Eopelobates wagneri | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Suborder: | Mesobatrachia |
| Family: | Pelobatidae |
| Genus: | †Eopelobates Parker, 1929 |
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Eopelobates is an extinct genus of frog. Closely related to the living European spadefoot toad, it is known from the Eocene of western North America, and the Eocene-Pliocene of Europe. It is suggested that the distribution over both Europe and North America is due to dispersal during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.[1]
References
- ↑ Roček, Zbyněk; Wuttke, Michael; Gardner, James D.; Singh Bhullar, Bhart-Anjan (2014). "The Euro-American genus Eopelobates, and a re-definition of the family Pelobatidae (Amphibia, Anura)". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 94 (4): 529–567. doi:10.1007/s12549-014-0169-5. ISSN 1867-1594.
- Spinar, Z.V. & Rocek, Z. 1984. The discovery of the impression of the ventral side of Eopelobates anthracinus Parker, 1929 holotype. Amphibia-Reptilia 5: 87-95.
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