Prosalirus

Prosalirus
Temporal range: Early Jurassic[1]
Prosalirus bitis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: †Prosaliridae
Genus: †Prosalirus
Shubin & Jenkins, 1995
Type species
Prosalirus bitis
Shubin & Jenkins, 1995

Prosalirus is the name given to a fossilised prehistoric frog found in the Kayenta Formation of Arizona in 1981 by Farish Jenkins.[2] The type, and currently only, species is Prosalirus bitis.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference dk1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Geographica; "Jurassic Frog hops into the record book", National Geographic; August 1996, pg.5.