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Eurycephalella is an extinct genus of frogs which existed in what is now Brazil during the Early Cretaceous ( Aptian). It was named by Ana M. Báez, Geraldo J.B. Moura and Raúl O. Gómez in 2009, and the type species is Eurycephalella alcinae. [1]
Discovery
Eurycephalella was discovered within the limestone predominant Crato Formation of the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil. [1] [2] The specimen is the partial skeleton of an adult, and is in the collection of the Museum of Paleontology in Santana do Cariri. [2]
Although the fossil was originally assigned to the genus Arariphrynus (Leal and Brito, 2006), it was later changed to Eurycephalella. [1]
References
- ^ a b c Ana M. Báez; Geraldo J.B. Moura & Raúl O. Gómez (2009). "Anurans from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of northeastern Brazil: implications for the early divergence of neobatrachians". Cretaceous Research. 30 (4): 829–846. Bibcode: 2009CrRes..30..829B. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2009.01.002.
- ^ a b "Barbalha (Cretaceous of Brazil)". PaleoBiology Database. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
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