Salientia

Salientia
Temporal range:
Early TriassicPresent, 250–0 Ma
Hourglass Treefrogs Hyla ebraccata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Superorder: Batrachia
Clade: Salientia
Laurenti, 1768
Subgroups

The Salientia (Latin salire, salio meaning "to jump") are a total group of amphibians that includes the order Anura, the frogs and toads, and various extinct proto-frogs that are more closely related to the frogs than they are to the Urodela, the salamanders and newts.[1] The oldest fossil "proto-frog" appeared in the early Triassic of Madagascar, but molecular clock dating suggests their origins may extend further back to the Permian, 265 million years ago.

  1. ^ David Cannatella (1995). "Salientia". Tree of Life Web Project. Retrieved 2012-08-14.