Amphibia - Salientia - Calyptocephalellidae
Full reference: B. Schaeffer. 1949. Anurans from the early Tertiary of Patagonia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 93(2):44-68
Belongs to Calyptocephalella according to B. Schaeffer 1949
Sister taxa: Calyptocephalella gayi, Calyptocephalella sabrosa
Type specimen: A.M.N.H. No. 3429, a partial skeleton (partial skeleton consisting of crushed skul, right half of pectoral girdle, right fore limb, first three vertebrae, and other fragments). Its type locality is Crater Lake Beds - Scarritt Pocket, which is in a Chattian crater lake conglomerate/sandstone in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina.
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Argentina (1 collection)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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