Saltenia

<i>Saltenia</i>

Saltenia

Extinct genus of amphibians

Saltenia is an extinct genus of frogs. It was assigned to the family Pipidae by R. L. Carroll in 1988 and again in 2005 by A. M. Báez and T. Harrison.[1] The single described species, Saltenia ibanezi, is thought to have lived in South America in the Late Cretaceous.[2]

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Its closest living relative are the frogs in the genus Silurana.[3] Fossils of Saltenia have been found in the Campanian Las Curtiembres Formation of Argentina.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "The Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 2009-09-25.
  2. [2]
    Robert L. Carroll; Harold Heatwole, Amphibian Biology: The Evolutionary History of Amphibians (PDF), vol. 4, Surrey Beatty & Sons, p. 26, retrieved 2009-09-25
  3. [3]
    Trueb, Linda; Ana María Báez (March 2006). "Revision of the Early Cretaceous Cordicephalus from Israel and an assessment of its relationships among pipoid frogs" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26 (1). The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology: 44–59. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[44:ROTECC]2.0.CO;2.
  4. [4]
    Saltenia at Fossilworks.org


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