Comobatrachus
Genus of amphibians
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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]
| Comobatrachus Temporal range: Late Jurassic, | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Genus: | †Comobatrachus Estes & Hecht, 1960 |
| Type species | |
| †Comobatrachus aenigmatis Estes & Hecht, 1960 | |
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