| Pachycentrata Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Pipidae |
| Subfamily: | Pipinae |
| Genus: | † Pachycentrata Báez and Rage, 2004 |
| Species: | †P. taqueti |
| Binomial name | |
| †Pachycentrata taqueti (Báez and Rage, 1998) | |
| Synonyms | |
Pachybatrachus taquetiBáez and Rage, 1998 (gen preoccupied) | |
Pachycentrata is an extinct genus of frogs.
Pachycentrata fossils have been found in the In Beceten Formation located in Tahoua, Niger. [1] The fossils have been dated to the late/upper Coniacian to Santonian periods. [2] It is estimated to have snout-vent length about 7 centimetres (2.8 in). [1] The original phylogenetic analysis suggested that it was more closely related to Pipa than to Xenopus , [1] and a recent phylogenetic supports this conclusion in an unconstrained phylogenetic analysis, but constraining for the topology obtained by molecular studies [3] [4] yields less resolved results that place Pachycentrata in an unresolved polytomy with extant pipids and several extinct pipimorphs. [5]
