Eurycephalella
Eurycephalella Temporal range: Aptian
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Eurycephalella is an extinct genus of frogs which existed in what is now Brazil during the Early Cretaceous (Aptian). It was named by Ana M. Báez, Geraldo J.B. Moura and Raúl O. Gómez in 2009, and the type species is Eurycephalella alcinae.[1]
Discovery[]
Eurycephalella was discovered within the limestone predominant Crato Formation of the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil.[1][2] The specimen is the partial skeleton of an adult, and is in the collection of the Museum of Paleontology in Santana do Cariri.[2]
Although the fossil was originally assigned to the genus (Leal and Brito, 2006), it was later changed to Eurycephalella.[1]
Description[]
Eurycephalella alcinae was a carnivorous frog that lived in or around a large lake or "thermally stratified lagoon".[2]
References[]
- ^ a b c Ana M. Báez; Geraldo J.B. Moura & Raúl O. Gómez (2009). "Anurans from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of northeastern Brazil: implications for the early divergence of neobatrachians". Cretaceous Research. 30 (4): 829–846. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2009.01.002.
- ^ a b c http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=basicCollectionSearch&collection_no=92097, PaleoBiology Database, Barbalha, Retrieved January 30, 2011.
- Prehistoric amphibian genera
- Early Cretaceous frogs
- Aptian life
- Cretaceous amphibians of South America
- Early Cretaceous animals of South America
- Cretaceous Brazil
- Fossils of Brazil
- Crato Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 2009
- Prehistoric amphibian stubs
- Cretaceous animal stubs