Shelania
Shelania | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Pipidae |
Genus: | †Shelania Casamiquela 1960 |
Species | |
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Shelania is an extinct genus of prehistoric frogs that lived in South America during the Eocene. Its type species is Shelania pascuali. Fossils of Shelania have been found in the Mustersan and Laguna del Hunco Formations of Argentina.[1]
See also[]
- List of prehistoric amphibians
References[]
- ^ "†Shelania Casamiquela 1960". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
Categories:
- Pipidae
- Eocene amphibians
- Paleogene amphibians of South America
- Eocene animals of South America
- Mustersan
- Bartonian life
- Lutetian life
- Paleogene Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Cañadón Asfalto Basin
- Fossil taxa described in 1960
- Taxa named by Rodolfo Casamiquela
- Prehistoric amphibian stubs