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Extinct genus of amphibians

Seminobatrachus
Temporal range: Thanetian - Ypresian, 57–54 Ma PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
A fossil with soft tissue impressions interpreted at right
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Urodela
Genus: Seminobatrachus
Skutschas & Gubin, 2011
Species
  • S. boltyschkensis Skutschas & Gubin, 2011 (type)

Seminobatrachus is an extinct genus of neotenic salamander from late Paleocene to early Eocene deposits of Cherkassy Region, central Ukraine. It is known from 14 skeletons from a drill hole near Boltyshka village. It was first named by Pavel P. Skutschas and Yuri M. Gubin in 2011 and the type species is Seminobatrachus boltyschkensis.

References

  1. Pavel P. Skutschas; Yuri M. Gubin (2011). "A new salamander from the late Paleocene–early Eocene of Ukraine" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 57: 135–148. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0101.
Caudate families by suborder
Cryptobranchoidea Ambystoma opacum
Salamandroidea
Sirenoidea
Taxon identifiers
Seminobatrachus


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