Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Olfactores
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Batrachomorpha
Classis: Amphibia
Subclassis: Lissamphibia
Superordo: Batrachia
Cladus: Salientia
Ordo: Anura
Familia: †Palaeobatrachidae
Genera: †Palaeobatrachus
Name
†Palaeobatrachidae Cope, 1865: 99
Type genus: †Palaeobatrachus Tschudi, 1839, by monotypy.
References
Primary references
Cope, E.D. 1865. Sketch of the primary groups of Batrachia Salientia. Natural History Review 5: 97–120.
Palaeobatrachidae is an extinct family of frogs known from the Late Cretaceous to the Pleistocene primarily of Europe. They were highly adapted to aquatic life, like other members of the Pipimorpha. The oldest undoubted records of the family are from the lower Campanian (83.6-77.9 million years ago) of France. By far the most abundant genus is Palaeobatrachus, known from the Eocene to Pleistocene of Europe, with most other named genera in the family synonymised with it,[1] the only exception being Albionbatrachus, which is distinguished from Palaeobatrachus by characters of its frontoparietals.[2] The youngest fossils of Palaeobatrachus date to around 500,000 years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene after which they likely became extinct due to increasing aridity and freezing temperatures during the ice ages.[1] Fossils of indeterminate palaeobatrachids are also known from the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene of Western Siberia.[3]
References
Wuttke, Michael; Přikryl, Tomáš; Ratnikov, Viacheslav Yu.; Dvořák, Zdeněk; Roček, Zbyněk (September 2012). "Generic diversity and distributional dynamics of the Palaeobatrachidae (Amphibia: Anura)". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 92 (3): 367–395. Bibcode:2012PdPe...92..367W. doi:10.1007/s12549-012-0071-y. ISSN 1867-1594. S2CID 130080167.
Roček, Zbyněk; Boistel, Renaud; Lenoir, Nicolas; Mazurier, Arnaud; Pierce, Stephanie E.; Rage, Jean-Claude; Smirnov, Sergei V.; Schwermann, Achim H.; Valentin, Xavier; Venczel, Márton; Wuttke, Michael; Zikmund, Tomáš (November 2015). "Frontoparietal Bone in Extinct Palaeobatrachidae (Anura): Its Variation and Taxonomic Value: FRONTOPARIETAL IN EXTINCT PALAEOBATRACHID FROGS". The Anatomical Record. 298 (11): 1848–1863. doi:10.1002/ar.23203. PMID 26235188. S2CID 30748485.
Syromyatnikova, E.V. (September 2018). "New palaeobatrachid records from Asia". Palaeoworld. 27 (3): 410–414. doi:10.1016/j.palwor.2018.05.002. S2CID 135108434.
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