Comobatrachus
| Comobatrachus Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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| Genus: | †Comobatrachus Estes & Hecht, 1960
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| †Comobatrachus aenigmatis Estes & Hecht, 1960
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Comobatrachus (meaning "Como Bluff frog") is a dubious[1] genus of extinct frog known only from the holotype, YPM 1863, part of the right humerus, found in Reed's Quarry 9 near Como Bluff, Wyoming in the Late Jurassic-aged Morrison Formation.[2][3] The holotype was commented on but not described by Moodie in 1912,[4] although it was probably discovered before 1887, at the same time as the holotype of Eobatrachus was discovered, but was not described by Othniel Charles Marsh when he described Eobatrachus in 1887.[5] The type, and only species, C. aenigmatis, was named and described in 1960.[6] It was probably related to the contemporaneous Eobatrachus.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b Evans, S. E. and Milner, A. R. (1993). Frogs and salamanders from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation (Quarry Nine, Como Bluff) of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13(1):24-30
- ^ Foster, J. (2007). Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. 389pp. ISBN 978-0-253-34870-8.
- ^ Foster, J. (2007). "Anura (Frogs)." pp. 135-136.
- ^ Moodie, R. L. (1912). An American Jurassic frog. The American Journal of Science, series 4 34(27):286-288
- ^ March, O. C. (1887). American Jurassic mammals. The American Journal of Science, series 3 33(196):327-348
- ^ Hecht, M. K. and Estes, R. (1960). Fossil amphibians from Quarry Nine. Postilla 46:1-19
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