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Cratia
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
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Cratia

Báez, Moura & Gómez, 2009
Species
  • C. gracilis Báez, Moura & Gómez, 2009 (type)

Cratia is an extinct frog which existed in Brazil during the lower Cretaceous period. Fossils were discovered in and named after the Crato Formation.[1] It was named by Ana M. Báez, Geraldo J.B. Moura and Raúl O. Gómez in 2009, and the type species is Cratia gracilis.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Anurans from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of northeastern Brazil: implications for the early divergence of neobatrachians". Cretaceous Research. 30 (4): 829–846. 2009. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2009.01.002. {{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |authors= (help)