Anura, Fischer von Waldheim, 1813

Allain, Ronan, Vullo, Romain, Rozada, Lee, Anquetin, Jérémy, Bourgeais, Renaud, Goedert, Jean, Lasseron, Maxime, Martin, Jeremy E., Pérez-García, Adán, Fabrègues, Claire Peyre De, Royo-Torres, Rafael, Augier, Dominique & Bailly, Gilles, 2022, Vertebrate paleobiodiversity of the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) Angeac-Charente Lagerstätte (southwestern France): implications for continental faunal turnover at the J / K boundary, Geodiversitas 44 (25), pp. 683-752 : 695-697

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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/geodiversitas2022v44a25

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6926487

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scientific name

Anura
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Anura View in CoL View at ENA indet.

( Fig. 10 View FIG )

DESCRIPTION

Despite a swampy paleoenvironment that might be suitable for their occurrence and preservation, anurans are relatively scarce among the microvertebrate material from Angeac-Charente. In Angeac-Charente, anurans are represented by isolated, fragmentary bones, such as fused zeugopods ( Fig. 10A, B View FIG ) and urostyles ( Fig. 10C, D View FIG )

Among fused zeugopods, some are sufficiently well preserved to allow their identification.For instance, the general shape and length (even if the proximal part is missing) of specimen ANG M-63 ( Fig. 10A, B View FIG ), as well as several other features, allow its identification as a tibiofibula ( Thomas 1996): presence of a tibiofibular groove, deeper on the anterior face, between the fused zeugopod, and presence of a tibial crest on the anterior face ( Fig. 10A View FIG ). Among well-known Early Cretaceous anuran families are the Alytidae (= “ Discoglossidae ”), but within this family, the tibia and fibula remain unfused ( Roček 2000), unlike the Angeac-Charente specimen.

The specimen ANG M-64 ( Fig. 10C, D View FIG ) bears two broad and flattened articular facets anteriorly, and a small crest arises from its dorsal face. Four weakly marked ridges can be seen alongside this small crest, two on each side ( Fig. 9C View FIG ). This morphology identifies it as a urostyle. To date, incompleteness of the material limits comparisons with other Mesozoic anurans.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Anura

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