Enneabatrachus

<i>Enneabatrachus</i>

Enneabatrachus

Extinct genus of amphibians

Enneabatrachus (meaning "[Quarry] nine frog") is an extinct genus of prehistoric frogs known from the late Jurassic Morrison Formation of the United States[1] and also the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Ksar Metlili Formation of Morocco.[2] The type species is E. hechti (named in 1993),[3] whose remains have been recovered from stratigraphic zone 5.[4]

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One specimen has been recovered from Quarry 9 of Como Bluff in Wyoming and another specimen was later reported from Dinosaur National Monument.[1] The Como Bluff specimen was an ilium only a few millimeters long.[1] Indeterminate specimens are known from Morocco.[2]

E. hechti's live weight would have only been a few grams.[1]

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References

  1. [1]
    Foster, J. (2007). "Enneabatrachus hechti" Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. p. 137.
  2. [2]
    Jones, M.E.H.; Evans, S. E.; Sigogneau-Russell, D. (2003). "Early Cretaceous frogs from Morocco". Annals of Carnegie Museum. 72 (2): 65–97. doi:10.5962/p.215089. S2CID 88962907.
  3. [3]
    S. E. Evans and A. R. Milner. (1993). Frogs and salamanders from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation (Quarry Nine, Como Bluff) of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13(1):24-30
  4. [4]
    Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. pp. 327–329.


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