Seminobatrachus
Seminobatrachus Temporal range: Thanetian - Ypresian, 57–54 Ma | |
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A fossil with soft tissue impressions interpreted at right | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Urodela |
Genus: | †Seminobatrachus Skutschas & Gubin, 2011 |
Species | |
Seminobatrachus is an extinct genus of neotenic salamander from late Paleocene to early Eocene deposits of Cherkassy Region, central Ukraine. It is known from 14 skeletons from a drill hole near Boltyshka village. It was first named by Pavel P. Skutschas and Yuri M. Gubin in 2011 and the type species is Seminobatrachus boltyschkensis.[1]
References
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- ↑ Pavel P. Skutschas and Yuri M. Gubin (2011). "A new salamander from the late Paleocene–early Eocene of Ukraine" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 57. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0101.
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