†Kuruleufenia Gómez 2016 (clawed frog)
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Amphibia - Salientia - Pipidae
Full reference: R. O. Gómez. 2016. A new pipid frog from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia and early evolution of crown-group Pipidae. Cretaceous Research 62:52-64
Parent taxon: Pipidae according to F. Suazo Lara and R. O. Gómez 2022
See also Aranciaga Rolando et al. 2019, Carvalho et al. 2019 and Gómez 2016
Sister taxa: Llankibatrachus, Oumtkoutia, Pipinae, Rocekophryne, Shomronella, Xenopodinae, Xenopus
Subtaxa: Kuruleufenia xenopoides
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Argentina (5 collections), Chile (1)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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