Seminobatrachus

Seminobatrachus
Temporal range: Thanetian - Ypresian, 57–54 Ma
A fossil with soft tissue impressions interpreted at right
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Urodela
Genus: Seminobatrachus
Skutschas & Gubin, 2011
Species
  • S. boltyschkensis Skutschas & Gubin, 2011 (type)

Seminobatrachus is an extinct genus of neotenic salamander from late Paleocene to early Eocene deposits of Cherkassy Region, central Ukraine. It is known from 14 skeletons from a drill hole near Boltyshka village. It was first named by Pavel P. Skutschas and Yuri M. Gubin in 2011 and the type species is Seminobatrachus boltyschkensis.[1]

References

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  1. Pavel P. Skutschas and Yuri M. Gubin (2011). "A new salamander from the late Paleocene–early Eocene of Ukraine" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0101.
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