Comobatrachus Temporal range: Late Jurassic, | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Genus: | † Comobatrachus Estes & Hecht, 1960 |
Type species | |
†Comobatrachus aenigmatis Estes & Hecht, 1960 | |
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Comobatrachus (meaning "Como Bluff frog") is a dubious [1] genus of extinct frog known only from the holotype, YPM 1863, part of the right humerus, found in Reed's Quarry 9 near Como Bluff, Wyoming in the Late Jurassic-aged Morrison Formation. [2] [3] The holotype was commented on but not described by Moodie in 1912, [4] although it was probably discovered alongside the holotype of Eobatrachus , but was not described by Othniel Charles Marsh when he named Eobatrachus in 1887. [5] The type, and only species, C. aenigmatis, was named and described in 1960. [6] It was probably related to the contemporaneous Eobatrachus . [1]