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Frog
Kingdom: Animalia
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Neogene
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Miocene
International Age: Orleanian
Shanwang Formation
Acquired by: Purchase/Trade
Length: 3 cm
Jijiazhuang Village
Changle County
Shandong Province
China
Taxonomy from Roček et al. 2008.
Diagnosis from Roček et al. 2008, p. 501: "large member of the Pelobatoidea; skull short and broad; vertebral centra procoelous; sacral diapophyses strongly expanded, with distinct skeletal adaptations for burrowing; robust spade present; tibiofibula shorter than femur; astragalus and calcaneus short. Differs from the Pelobatidae in having paired frontoparietals (thus the frontoparietal is not of tripartite origin, as is the case with Pelobates and Eopelobates). Astragalus and calcaneus not fused, sacro-urostylar articulation by a single condyle,
Identified by Tomáš Přikryl, Department of Paleobiology and Paleoecology, Prague, Czechia
References:
Roček, Z., , L., Přikryl, T., Sun, C., Tan, J., Wang, Y., Fossil frogs (Anura) from Shanwang (Middle Miocene; Shandong Province, China), Geobios (2008), doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2010.11.009.
Yang, J., 1977. On some Salientia and Chiroptera from Shanwang, Linqu, Shandong. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 15, 76–80.
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