Hungarobatrachus (meaning "Hungarian frog") is an extinct genus of advanced frog, which lived during the upper Cretaceous period (Santonian age) in what is now Hungary. It was described in 2010 from isolated ilia and tibio-fibulae recovered from the Iharkút locality in the Csehbánya Formation. This genus was named by Zoltán Szentesi and Márton Venczel in 2010, and the type species is Hungarobatrachus szukacsi.[1] While originally interpreted as a member of Ranoidea, a later study based on new ilia and skull bones found it to be a member of Hyloidea instead.[2]
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References
edit- ^ Zoltán Szentesi and Márton Venczel (2010). "An advanced anuran from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian) of Hungary" (PDF). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 256 (3): 291–302. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2010/0054.
- ^ Venczel, Márton; Szentesi, Zoltán; Gardner, James D. (2021-04-08). "New material of the frog Hungarobatrachus szukacsi Szentesi & Venczel, 2010, from the Santonian of Hungary, supports its neobatrachian affinities and reveals a Gondwanan influence on the European Late Cretaceous anuran fauna". Geodiversitas. 43 (7). doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a7. ISSN 1280-9659.
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