Prosalirus Shubin and Jenkins 1995 (frogs and relatives)

Amphibia - Salientia - Notobatrachidae

Full reference: N. H. Shubin and F. A. Jenkins. 1995. An Early Jurassic jumping frog. Nature 377:49-52

Parent taxon: Notobatrachidae according to K.-Q. Gao and Y. Wang 2001

See also Sanchiz 1998 and Shubin and Jenkins 1995

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Prosalirus bitis

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Type: Prosalirus bitis

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at Gold Spring Quarry 1 (MNA, MCZ, TMM 45609) (Jurassic of Arizona)

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