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Genibatrachus baoshanensis GAO & CHEN, 2017
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Taxonomy
Frog
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia Linnaeus, 1758
Order: Anura von Waldheim, 1813
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Genibatrachus
Species: Genibatrachus baoshanensis
Author Citation GAO & CHEN, 2017
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Cretaceous
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Early
Stratigraphy
Guanghua Formation
Provenance
Acquired by: Purchase/Trade
Dimensions
Length: 17 cm
Location
Taipingqiao village
Morin Dawa Daur Autonomous Banner
Inner Mongolia
China
- cretaceous
- genibatrachus
- guanghua formation
- longjiang formation
- nei mongol
- taipingqiao
- tff-oilshale-ch1370
Comments
Taxonomy from Gao & Chen 2017
Diagnosis from Gao & Chen 2017, p. 5: "A new fossil belonging to the Pipanura (a clade consisting of the Pipoidea, Pelobatoidea, and Neobatrachia) based on the combination of the following characters: palatine present; eight presacral vertebrae; centrum procoelous; separate ribs present on the presacral II–IV; ribs V–VIII fused to the transverse processes of the presacral. It is distinguished from all other taxa within the Pipanura with the combination of the following characters: alary process of premaxilla bifurcated; nonimbricate presacral neural arches; transverse processes of presacral V–VIII laterally oriented; unexpanded sacral diapophysis."
Line drawing from Gao & Chen 2017, p. 6:
Identified by oilshale.
References:
Gao & Chen (2017) A New Crown-Group Frog (Amphibia: Anura) from the Early Cretaceous of Northeastern Inner Mongolia, China. AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES. Number 3876, pp1-39.
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