Biology:Avitabatrachus
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Short description: Genus of amphibians
| Avitabatrachus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Clade: | Pipimorpha |
| Genus: | †Avitabatrachus Báez et al. 2000[1][2] |
| Species: | †A. uliana
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| Binomial name | |
| †Avitabatrachus uliana Báez et al. 2000
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Avitabatrachus uliana is the only species discovered so far in the extinct genus Avitabatrachus, a genus of prehistoric frogs that lived in the Middle Cretaceous. Fossils of A. uliana were found in the Candeleros Formation of northwestern Patagonia in Argentina . It was properly described in 2000 and was then concluded to be most closely related to Pipidae frogs. Hence, it was included in Pipimorpha.[1]
Etymology
The genus name, Avitabatrachus, is derived from the Greek words avita meaning "ancient" and batrachos meaning "frog", so called because it is the oldest record of pipids in South America. The species is named after Miguel Uliana.[1][3]
See also
- Prehistoric amphibian
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Baez, Maria Ana; Linda Trueb; Jorge O. Calvo (2000-03-30). "The Earliest Known Pipoid Frog from South America: A New Genus from the Middle Cretaceous of Argentina". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology) 20 (3): 490–500. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0490:TEKPFF2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 1937-2809. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1671/0272-4634%282000%29020%5B0490:TEKPFF%5D2.0.CO%3B2.
- ↑ Dubois, Alain; Ronald I. Crombie; Frank Glaw (2005). "Recent amphibians: generic and infrageneric taxonomic additions (1981-2002)". Alytes 23 (1–2): 25–69. http://amphibiaweb.org/taxonomy/pdf/Alytes_2005_23_1-2_25-69_Dubois_et_al.pdf.
- ↑ Báez, Ana María (September 2009). "The earliest known pipoid frog from South America: A new genus from the Middle Cretaceous of Argentina". https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312503089.
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