Llankibatrachus, Báez & Pugener, 2003
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2003.00085.x |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/086AD326-7C74-FF8A-FC26-FEFFBDD7FC69 |
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Carolina |
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scientific name |
Llankibatrachus |
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gen. nov. |
LLANKIBATRACHUS GEN. NOV.
Type species: Llankibatrachus truebae , sp. nov.
Etymology: From the Araucanian llanki, meaning disappeared, and the Greek batrachos, meaning frog, in reference to its present absence in the area where the fossils were collected.
Distribution: Palaeogene of north-western Patagonia, Argentina, and, possibly, eastern Brazil.
Diagnosis: Xenopodinomorph that differs from Shelania in having a short, blunt anterior ramus of pterygoid, presacral vertebrae one and two fused, and clavicle and scapula fused lacking all traces of a suture. It differs from Xenopus View in CoL and Silurana View in CoL , and resembles Shelania , in the well ossified sphenethmoid that surrounds the frontoparietal fenestra, edentulous maxillary arch, and lack of complex zygapophyses.
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