Palaeobatrachidae

Palaeobatrachidae is an extinct family of frogs known from the Cretaceous to the Pleistocene of Europe. It belongs to the clade Pipimorpha[1]

Palaeobatrachidae
Temporal range: Santonian–Middle Pleistocene
Palaeobatrachus gigas from Czech Republic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Clade: Pipoidea
Clade: Pipimorpha
Family: Palaeobatrachidae
Cope, 1865
Genera

Albionbatrachus
Messelobatrachus
Palaeobatrachus
Pliobatrachus

References

  1. Báez, Ana María (2013). "Anurans from the Early Cretaceous Lagerstätte of Las Hoyas, Spain: New evidence on the Mesozoic diversification of crown-clade Anura". Cretaceous Research. 41: 90–106. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2012.11.002. ISSN 0195-6671.
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