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Vulcanobatrachus
| Description | Vulcanobatrachus is an extinct genus of fossil frog. The new genus which contains the single species Vulcanobatrachus mandelai found at Marydale, South Africa was recently described. The genus owes its name to the fact that fossils were recovered from an extinct volcanic crater lake of Late Cretaceous origin. The fossil frogs are assumed to have died following a limnic eruption (a degassing event possibly of CO2) by the volcano. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcanobatrachus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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| Rank | genus | |||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Amphibia : Anura : Vulcanobatrachus | |||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
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| Scientific Name | Vulcanobatrachus Trueb, Ross & Smith, 2005 | |||||||
| Name Published In | Article title: A new pipoid anuran from the Late Cretaceous of South Africa. | |||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcanobatrachus |
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Vulcanobatrachus mandelai species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
References
| inferred from original work (title) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| refer original publication - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| web search (AJR) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| www.organismnames.com (Jul 2012) / web search - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Article title: A new pipoid anuran from the Late Cretaceous of South Africa. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
